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Central Atlas Tamazight (also referred to as just Tamazight〔While Central Atlas Tamazight is the only Berber language whose speakers use the term ''Tamaziɣt'' to refer to their language regularly and exclusively, other Berber groups also refer to their language using this term along with more common local names.〕) belongs to the Northern Berber family of Berber languages. As a member of the Afro-Asiatic language macrofamily, Tamazight grammar has a two-gender (''tawsit''〔(The Amazigh Voice ) (PDF), p. 10.〕) system, VSO typology, emphatic consonants (realized in Tamazight as velarized), and a templatic morphology. Tamazight has a verbo-nominal distinction, with adjectives being a subset of verbs.〔 (La Syntaxe de la Langue Berbère )〕 == Nouns == Nouns may be masculine or feminine and singular or plural. Definiteness is not marked (even though many loanwords from Arabic contain what was originally the Arabic definite article). Normally plurals end in /-n/, singular masculines have the prefix /a-/ and plurals /i-/, and feminines have the circumfix in singular and in plural. In Ayt Seghrouchen initial /a/ is dropped in many singular nouns, though their plurals and construct states are similar to Ayt Ayache. Plurals may either involve a regular change ("sound plurals"), internal vowel change ("broken plurals"), or a combination of the two. Some plurals are mixed, e.g. ('hand') ('hands'). Native masculine singular nouns usually start with in singular and in plural, and "sound plurals" (as opposed to "broken plurals" which also take the suffix in plural. This suffix undergoes the following assimilatory rules: > (in AA and AS), > (only AA), > ) (only AA). Native feminine usually are surrounded by (or ) in the singular. "Sound" plurals usually take and "Broken" plurals . Examples:. : /axam/-/ixamn/ 'big tent(s)' (m) : /amaziɣ/-/imaziɣn/ 'Berber(s)' (m) : /adaʃu//-/iduʃa/ 'sandal(s)' (m) : /asrdun/-/isrdan/ 'mule(s)' (m) : /taxamt/-/tixamin/ 'tent(s)' (f) : /tafunast/-/tifunasin/ 'cow(s)' (f) : /tagrtilt/-/tigrtal/ 'mat(s)' (f) : /tamazirt/-/timizar/ 'property(ies)' (f) Nouns may be put into the construct state (contrasting with free state to indicate possession, or when the subject of a verb follows the verb. This is also used for nouns following numerals and some prepositions (note that , 'to', only requires this for feminine nouns), as well as the word ('and'). The construct state is formed as follows: in masculines, initial becomes , initial becomes , and initial becomes . In feminines, initial becomes or rarely , initial becomes or rarely , and initial becomes . Examples (in AA):〔 : (< ) 'head of the house' : (< ) 'the horse of the bride' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Central Atlas Tamazight grammar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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