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Matmata Berber is the Zenati Berber dialect spoken around the town of Matmâta in southern Tunisia, and in the villages of Taoujjout, Tamezret and Zrawa. According to Ben Mamou's lexicon,〔(Tamezret (Tunisie) et son dialecte berbère )〕 its speakers call it ''Tmaziɣṯ'', or ''Eddwi nna'' "our speech", while it is called Shelha or ''Jbali'' (جبالي) in local Tunisian Arabic dialects. The total population speaking it was estimated at 3,726 in 1975〔Sadok Sahli, 1983, "La population berbère devant les problèmes modernes en Tunisie", ''Démographie et destin des sous-populations: colloque de Liège, 21-23 septembre 1981'' no. 1, Association internationale des démographes de langue française, INED, p. 373〕 Documentation of this variety is limited. A collection of fairy tales in this variety was published by Stumme in 1900〔Hans Stumme, 1900, ''Märchen der Berbern von Tamzratt im Süd-Tünisien'', Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs Buchhandlung.〕 Basset (1950)〔André Basset, 1950, "Les parlers berbères". ''Initiation à la Tunisie''. Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, pp. 220-226.〕 provides a few dialect maps of Tunisian Berber including this region, showing lexical variation, while Penchoen (1968)〔Thomas Penchoen, 1968, "La langue berbère en Tunisie et la scolarisation des enfants berbérophones", ''Revue Tunisienne des Sciences Sociales'', pp. 173-186.〕 offers a general discussion of Tunisian Berber and the effects of schooling. Collins (1981)〔Ridwan Collins, 1981, " Un microcosme berbère. Système verbal et satellites dans trois parlers tunisiens ". ''Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes'' nos. 148, 149, pp. 287-303, pp. 113-129.〕 discusses its verbal morphology along with that of other Tunisian Berber varieties. The only general grammatical sketch and vocabulary available is the website put together by Larbi Ben Mamou, a native speaker of the language.〔(Tamezret (Tunisie) et son dialecte berbère )〕 The Ethnologue treats it as part of Nafusi in Northwestern Libya, although the two belong to different subgroups of Berber according to Kossmann (1999).〔A separate language code in ''Ethnologue'' 13, (), was retired and reassigned to a Bhil language in India.〕 ==References== 〔 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「Matmata Berber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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