by Youcef Allioui · Editions L'Harmattan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782296960671
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«Un grain sur le toit» is the collection of Berber riddles and wisdom from Kabylia by Youcef Allioui, published by Editions L'Harmattan in paperback (430 pages, in French).
A compilation of traditional riddles from Algerian Kabylia presented in three blocks: the oral text in Kabyle, its French translation, and a sociolinguistic, historical, ethnographic and ecological commentary with its variants. The author also classifies these riddles and analyzes the rules linking sound and meaning in the Berber language, revealing an oral literature of great symbolic and cultural richness.
Work from the Présence berbère collection of L'Harmattan, published in 2012. Bilingual Berber-French edition. Includes bibliographic references, discography and filmography.
Suitable for readers interested in Amazigh culture, the oral literature of North Africa and ethnolinguistics, as well as for teachers and students of the Berber language.
