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Algeria: Is Harsusi A Dying Language?

Friday, March 2nd, 2007 @ 10:22 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:: Algeria
Topics:: Language

Algerian blogger Lameen Souag laments the death of yet another language here. “Somebody get over there and make some recordings of Harsusi,” he urges.

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Vladimir

It is true that Harsusi with the spread of school education and modern civilizational progress – which are good indeed – is under pressure. This language of oral non-written MSA languages is a language of countries folklore and daily speach – like any local Arabic dialect. But it is a Semitic non-Arabic language sure.
There are some Harsusi as well as some other Modern South Arabian languages MP3 examples at SemArch website of Heidelberg University in Germany.

# 2007-04-10 at 12:28 pm

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