Tamazgha is the name Amazigh writers and activists give to the lands where Amazigh languages are, or were, spoken: from the Canary Islands and the Atlantic coast of Morocco to the oasis of Siwa in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Sahel of Mali and Niger. This archive covers that whole world, across the borders that now divide it.
It is about culture, not grammar. The languages have their own home at amazigh.online. Here the subject is the land, the peoples who live on it, the persons who shaped it, the symbols they carried, and the events that connect them.
How an entry is made
Each entry synthesises published scholarship, museum and institutional records, and primary sources. Claims point to the sources in the Library; where the record is contested, the entry says so rather than choosing a side. Names are given first as the people concerned use them, in Tamazight and Tifinagh, then in Arabic and the European forms.
Every entry links to the others it touches, so the archive reads as a graph rather than a list: a place to its peoples, a person to the events of their life, a symbol to the regions where it is found. Entries are revised as sources are added, and each carries a citation in Chicago and APA form.
What it does not do
Tamazgha does not sell anything, carries no advertising and takes no sponsored content. It does not use generated images to illustrate people, places or objects; its plates are drawn and labelled as schematic.
The editor
Tamazgha was founded and is edited by Jacqueline Ng, a Canadian writer and cultural observer who has lived in Marrakech for more than a decade. She founded Slow Morocco, a publication that decodes Moroccan history, craft, food and faith, and the sister archive Ksour, on the earthen architecture of the Saharan-Maghreb.
Tamazgha is published by Dance with Lions. Reuse is welcome with attribution: see the licence and citation page.