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Re: [ontolog-forum] LInked Data meme revisited

To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Hassan Aït-Kaci" <hassanaitkaci@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:28:24 +0100
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On 12/17/2013 8:04 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
In fact, the only languages that Arabic replaced belong to the Afro-
Asiatic family.  That includes the Semitic languages of the near East
and the languages across northern Africa.  The Arabic writing system
was adopted for Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Kurdish, and many other
languages.  But Arabic never replaced those languages.

I beg to differ. I am originally from North Africa (Algeria) and I am a berber (Amazigh) from the Kabylie Region (east of Algiers). Arabic has definitely not replaced our language (of Hamitic roots). It is still very well alive, thank you! Witness to this all the poetry, songs, mythology and folk tales - not to mention everyday life (including radio and tv channels). And this, despite years of pro-Arabic government imposition after the independence from France in 1962. The berber culture and language, being mostly oral, have survived and thriven through centuries under Islamic hegemony and 132 years of French presence. Try any Arabic speaker to understand this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x342c6_idir-a-vava-inouva_music ...
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