ALGIERS – A new French-Tamazight dictionary dedicated to the terminology of history aimed at filling gaps in the field of neology was recently published by the academic Habib-Allah Mansouri.
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Published by the High Commission for Amazigh (HCA), this 210-page book is part of a process of producing history terminology that can be used as a tool for translation of history books into the Tamazight as well as in teaching
history in the different departments of Amazigh language and culture.
This lexicon is also a continuation of the research path opened by “Amawal”, a first research work proposing a Tamazight-French and French-Tamazight lexicon, headed by the writer, anthropologist and linguist Mouloud Mammeri and published in 1980.
The academic has selected concepts drawn from a large number of history books, giving priority to the history of North Africa to offer equivalents in Tamazight.
The equivalents were developed using formal neologisms, the introduction of a new word created from training rules specific to Tamazight, semantic neologisms, drawn from the meaning given to the words, and borrowings which consist in introducing words from of another language.
The book offers a part dedicated to words translated from French into Tamazight while a second part offers concepts and expressions some of which relate to disciplines such as politics, economics or sociology like “Civil Society” , “law
electoral “,” freedom of peoples to dispose of themselves “,” free trade “, or even” democratization of education “.
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This work, however, is not intended for sale but made available to researchers and libraries.
Academic and translator, Habib-Allah Mansouri has participated in numerous research works for the Hca and published other specialized lexicons, he has also translated several works including the novel “Golden Rain” by Mohamed Sari.
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