Word "flag" in Standard Moroccan Berber (original) (raw)

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ⴰⵛⵏⵢⴰⵍ


About Standard Moroccan Berber:

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Word " ⴰⵛⵏⵢⴰⵍ "

Word:

ⴰⵛⵏⵢⴰⵍ

Transliteration:

ašnyal

Script:

Tifinagh (Berber)

Etym. family:

*sign

Meaning:

flag

Identicals:

1 other wordform

External links:

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Word " acnyal "

Word:

acnyal

Script:

Latin

Variant:

less common orthography form of "ⴰⵛⵏⵢⴰⵍ"

Remarks:

Northern-Berber Latin alphabet

External links:

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Word " ⴰⵛⴻⵏⵢⴰⵍ "

Word:

ⴰⵛⴻⵏⵢⴰⵍ

Transliteration:

ašenyal

Script:

Tifinagh (Berber)

Variant:

unknown (help needed!) variation of "ⴰⵛⵏⵢⴰⵍ"

Identicals:

1 other wordform

Based on the word usage in the Standard Moroccan Berber test Wikipedia (hosted provisionally at the Wikimedia Incubator), we know about this word. It has a few articles written in Latin letterswhile most in Neo-Tifinagh, in its official orthography. The word in question is different from Kabylian and identical to Central Atlas Tamazight, based in the same Latin etym as English "ensign" or Catalan "senyera".
António Martins, 13 Oct 2017

no schwa with schwa
Latin acnyal acenyal
Tifinagh ⴰⵛⵏⵢⴰⵍ ⴰⵛⴻⵏⵢⴰⵍ

Most pages of the test Standard Moroccan Berber Wikipedia use the spelling "ⴰⵛⵏⵢⴰⵍ", in Tifinagh, while one pageuses its Berber Latin alphabet equivalent "acnyal"; however two otherpages use instead "acenyal", which is "ⴰⵛⴻⵏⵢⴰⵍ" in Tifinagh. I’d ascribe it to be a simple, meaningless typo, but "e"/"ⴻ" in Berber languagesis often an “optional” schwa, not a full-fledged vowel, and all four variants of the word (with and without "e"/"ⴻ", in Latin and Tifinagh letters) yield meaningful results in a web images search (see table).
António Martins, 13 Oct 2017

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Word " acenyal "

Word:

acenyal

Script:

Latin

Variant:

less common orthography form of "ⴰⵛⴻⵏⵢⴰⵍ"

Identicals:

1 other wordform

Remarks:

Northern-Berber Latin alphabet

External links:

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