The one replaced by a crow An Amazigh tale from Eastern Kabylia (Tasahlit/English) - LLACAN - Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire (UMR 8135)
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The one replaced by a crow An Amazigh tale from Eastern Kabylia (Tasahlit/English)

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This tale was recorded in December 2022 in Melbou (Aït Segoual confederation, Aït Bouhafan fraction, Eastern Kabylia, Algeria) by Youdas N’ Saâdi Lbuhfani from his mother Tabaâmrant. It’s told in Tasahlit, a northern Amazigh language, precisely in the Aït Segoual variety, called Tasegwalit, which is one of the Tasahlit dialects studied in my doctoral thesis (Garaoun 2024). It is a marvelous tale composed of several episodes, many of which are already known in the North African oral literature, although I have not come across a published version that closely resembles it. The recorded oral version lasts 12,35 minutes. The English translation of the story is literal. I have only taken liberties with the punctuation in certain places (placing a few commas where the storyteller has not paused) so that certain sentences remain understandable to non-Amazigh speakers. Tasahlit is spoken in the Babor Mountains by around 200,000 people. The Tasegwalit variety is spoken along the massif’s coastline, in a region of coasts, peninsulas and hills. Tasahlit is a little-described Amazigh language, belonging to the Afroasiatic phylum. Tales transcribed in Tasahlit and translated in French are available in studies by Genevoix (1955) for the Aït Smaïl variety, and Berkaï (2014) for the Aït Mhend, Aït Bouaïsi and Aït Waret Ou Ali varieties.
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Massinissa Garaoun. The one replaced by a crow An Amazigh tale from Eastern Kabylia (Tasahlit/English). JALaLit - Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2024, 5, https://doi.org/10.6093/jalalit.v0i5.11131. ⟨10.6093/jalalit.v0i5.11131⟩. ⟨hal-04691877⟩
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