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A Course in Spoken Tamazight (Middle Atlas Berber) by Ernest T. Abdel-Massih. 1970. 456 pages. No ISBN. $35.00. This text is for students interested in learning one or both dialects (Ayt Ayache and Ayt Seghrouchen) of Middle Atlas Berber (Tamazight). The volume is in four parts, including units on phonology, texts dealing with everyday life of speakers of Tamazight and lexicons of the two dialects. The book is designed to be used in conjunction with A Reference Grammar of Tamazight (Ernest T. Abdel-Massih). Accompanying tapes available separately through the U-M Language Resource Center.

A Reference Grammar of Tamazight by Ernest T. Abdel Massih. 1970. 332 pages. ISBN: 0-932098-05- 3. $35.00. This volume is subtitled "A Comparative Study of the Berber Dialects of Ayt Ayache and Ayt Seghrouchen." The seven sections deal with phonology, the numerical system, pronominal systems, the noun, particles, the verb and sentences. Designed to be used with A Course in Spoken Tamazight (Ernest T. Abdel-Massih). No tapes available.

A Computerized Lexicon of Tamazight (Berber Dialect of Ayt Seghrouchen) by Ernest T. Abdel-Massih. 1971. 393 pages plus a 60 page introduction on the grammar of the language. ISBN: 0-932098-06-1. $35.00. This is a dictionary in four parts: (1) alphabetical listing of Tamazight- English; (2) alphabetical listing of English-Tamazight; (3) alphabetically arranged cultural categories; (4) linguistic lexicon containing listings according to word origin and grammatical categories. Over 10,000 entries. No tapes available.