Kwarandzyey
Korandje; Belbali; lbəlbaliyya; Tabelbala; البلبالية;
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2010
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"Kwarandzyey (kʷara n dzyəy "village language", or lbəlbaliyya "Belbali"; Korandjé in earlier literature) is spoken by about 3000 people, called Belbalis, from the villages of Kwara (Zaouia), Ifrənyu (Cheraia), and Yami (Makhlouf) in the oasis of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria, about halfway between Bechar and Tindouf. There are significant numbers of Belbalis in Tindouf, and smaller numbers in Bechar and Oran."
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"Kwarandzyey (kʷara n dzyəy "village language", or lbəlbaliyya "Belbali"; Korandjé in earlier literature) is spoken by about 3000 people, called Belbalis, from the villages of Kwara (Zaouia), Ifrənyu (Cheraia), and Yami (Makhlouf) in the oasis of Tabelbala in southwestern Algeria, about halfway between Bechar and Tindouf. There are significant numbers of Belbalis in Tindouf, and smaller numbers in Bechar and Oran."
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"At present, Kwarandzyey is endangered. All Belbali men, and most women, speak dialectal Arabic [...] Most speakers claim to speak only Arabic to their young children, and in Ifrənyu people in their twenties can be found who have only a very limited passive knowledge of Kwarandzyey. The djemaa (council of elders) of Ifrənyu collectively resolved to give up Kwarandzyey in the 1970s, hoping to improve their children's educational chances by making sure they knew Arabic from the start (Tabelbala has had a government school since just before independence); the people of Kwara (Zaouia) followed suit in the 1980s. Nonetheless, Kwara's children have continued to acquire Kwarandzyey in their early teens from older teenagers."
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2009
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2011
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"Tabelbala oasis, in southwestern Algeria between Béchar and Tindouf."
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"Tabelbala oasis, in southwestern Algeria between Béchar and Tindouf."
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1991
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"Daß das K. kein hohes Prestige genießt, ist, in einer arabischen Umwelt, wohl vorstellbar. Einerseits ein als Sprache des Koran sakralisiertes Arabisch mit einer langen und reichen Traditions- und Kulturgeschichte, das von Millionen Menschen gesprochen wird, und andererseits das K., eine kleine unbedeutende 'Sprache der Jnūn' (Sprache der Teufel), wie manche Nicht-Belbali sie nennen... und die den Muttersprachlern als nicht geeignet erscheint, technische oder wissenschaftliche Sachverhalte wiederzugeben."
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- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- KorandjeLameen Souag. 2011. "Korandje." Sorosoro. Online: http://www.sorosoro.org/en/korandje.http://www.sorosoro.org/en/korandje
- Tabelbala: eine Songhaysprachinsel in der algerischen SaharaMohand Tilmatine. 1991. "Tabelbala: Eine Songhaysprachinsel in Der Algerischen Sahara." In Ägypten im Afro-orientalischen Kontext. Aufsätze zur Archäologie, Geschichte und Sprache eines unbegrenzten Raumes: Gedenkschrift Peter Behrens, edited by Daniela Mendel and Ulrike Claudi. 377-397. Inst. für Afrikanistik, Univ. zu Köln.
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