sienaindigoandlavender/tamazight-dictionary

# Amawal — Tamazight Dictionary ⴰⵎⴰⵡⴰⵍ A living dictionary and linguistic atlas of the Tamazight (Berber) language family tamazight.io A Dancing with Lions publication. Sister site: darija.io. --- ## What this is **Amawal** (ⴰⵎⴰⵡⴰⵍ — "dictionary" in Tamazight) is a structured reference for the Tamazight (Berber) language family. The launch corpus is **Tachelhit** — the variety spoken across the Souss in southern Morocco — with the underlying grammar generalising to **Kabyle** (Algeria), **Tarifit** (Northern Morocco), **Central Atlas Tamazight**, and **Tuareg** through predictable shifts. Pan-Berber by design, Tachelhit by volume today. Built on the calm-OS principles: clarity over cleverness, no streaks, no dopamine UI, no accounts, no ads. Useful and quietly addictive in the spirit of Sunsama. ## Status Currently on the development branch `claude/align-dictionary-chrome-hEykQ`. Deploy when the `tamazight.io` domain resolves. | Variety | Status | Speakers | |---------|--------|----------| | Tachelhit | Live | ~8 million | | Central Atlas | Coming | ~5 million | | Tarifit | Coming | ~4 million | | Ghomara | Coming | ~10–20k | | Kabyle | Coming | ~6 million | | Tuareg | Coming | ~1.5 million | | Zenaga | Coming | ~5k (endangered) | ## Surfaces ### Reference | Route | Purpose | |-------|---------| | `/` | Search-first home with daily rituals (recently viewed, word of the day, first-day, tradition, phrases discovery, explore) | | `/dictionary` | Browse every entry, grouped by semantic field | | `/dictionary/[word]` | Per-entry page with etymology, morphology, regional variants, examples, cross-references, OG share card, "Practice this word" button | | `/grammar` | Sound system, root-and-pattern morphology, free vs construct state, gender, pronouns, verb stems, negation | | `/map` | Interactive linguistic atlas (Mapbox, with static fallback) | | `/map/[region]` | Per-region detail; coming-soon varieties render placeholder pages, not 404s | | `/alphabet` | …