Note sur une expérience d'enseignement du berbère dans un lycée français

International audience Between 2007 and 2010, for the first time, Berber courses were proposed by the ministry of « Education nationale »in order to prepare students for the optional baccalaurate examination. This experience followed the political debate about the french ratification of the European Charter of Regional or Minority languages. By sparking the emergence of a new concept, that of « nonterritorial languages » of France,the debate brought a new cultural policy. Can we therefore interprate these official Berber languagecourses as the achievement ofBerber's new status as a « Laguage of France » ? Assuredly, the cultural associations' requestwere fullfilled thanks to the French authorities'new policy. However, the conditions in which the classes were held lead us to beleive that the new openness remained largely symbolic.