Name: Handa by Barefoot Linguist
Duration: 8 min 39 s
Description: A fairy-tale in Eastern Moroccan Arabic (Darija) about Handa Umm Lehnud and jealous co-wives recorded in Ain Bni Mathar (Jerada province) in November 2011. A female speaker, ca. 70 years old, Bni Gil tribe.

A song recorded with a lady at Ajjal (Allal), Zerqet (near Targuist) in 2022. 

a lbiḍa bent lebladi w lkas lɛsel a lbiḍa bent lebladi w lkas lɛsel
a lbareḥ kunti dyali w ana dya(l)k  a lyoma ža lbeṛṛani w žani ḥsal.

Allal2

A song recorded with a lady at Ajjal (Allal), Zerqet (near Targuist) in 2022. 

a lulid a lulid a fay bayyet – f elbiran, a fay bayyet – f elbiran
kayšuwwehli belmal a kašarik f elkiran-ek kašarik f elkiran
...
ya w dda-ha l-ssuq a mabġat tenbaɛ a w dda-ha l-ssuq a mabġat tenbaɛ
wa reddu-ha ldar daru(l?)ha (a?)lberdaɛ a reddu-ha ldar daru(l?)ha (a?)lberdaɛ

Allal3

A song recorded with a lady at Ajjal (Allal), Zerqet (near Targuist) in 2022. 

ddini ya zzin ddini w ddini gaɛ matddini 
(w) ana lmanda d el’usted ana gaɛ matelhini

Allal4

Ayt Hmed Senhaja Berber text about the Berber New Year celebration.
Recrdong with the transcription and translation (subtitles): 
https://youtu.be/5tsRFvWWDyY.

Lhaguz

Ketama (Beni Hmed) fairytale about Ogress and Hmimes.

Ketama_Ogress_and_Hmimes

Snow-White
Recorded in 2011 in Ain Beni Mathar.
hadi wahad lamra zman, žabat sabɛa... sabɛa (n)taɛ wlad, o žabat bent, odik lbent zina bezzayaf, obqat lamra tsawal šams, tgul ha alalla ɛayn šams sbah lxir. tgul ha sbah lxir alalla ɛayn šams, tgul ha škun lli zina? tgul ha ana zina onti zina olbent lli f lugmata xir menni omennak. ɛawad tani katlammad dik labniya, katlammad dik labniya kadirha f ... f mžiht thin – dasha. tgul ha alalla sbah lxir ɛayn šams. škun lli zina? tgul ha ana zina onti zina olli raki dayraha f thin xir menni omennak.
ɛawad tani la ghadda lik tani dasha tani dirha f lahtab, dasha ..tgul ha alalla ɛayn šams.škun lli zina? tgul ha ana zina onti zina olli f mžiht lahtab xir menni omennak. wahad nhar kanu mašyeen iruhlu, da baha laghlem da rraɛi laghlam odda kulši ožamɛo kismaytah žamɛo lafraš žamɛo kulši omšaw. lamdat bentha hattatha olamdat wahad lmehraz; xallat bentha oddat lmahraz, min mšaw bnat lxiyma osawbatha ohadi daru myaklu, galat rražalha flana ana benti ga ma zaggatš? hiya min mšat bhal haka tšufha gatlah ya rah lɛabd ɛta lammad lmahraz rafdah uxalla benti, baha yažri fug lɛawd baha yažri uhiyya tažri baha yažri uhiyya tažri, lwaqt li wsal lmodaɛ fin xallaw lbent, lghula žat hazzat lbent omšat, safi rražal min walla ll ɛamdat ɛliha mha, min walla ražal ɛand mha, gal ha awaddi raha datha lghula, darat rasha tabki ohadi. wahad nhar gatlah alalla ɛayn šams sbah lxir, gatlah sbah lxir, gatlah alalla ɛayn šams škun lli zina? ana zina onti zina lli datha mma lghula xir menni o mannak. bqat bahal hakka bqa hakkak wahad weld ɛamha kan sghir yalɛab, lbent kabrat uhadi bqat ɛand lghula, tayyablha uhadi utballaɛ ɛliha o tamši. bqa wahad nhar weld ɛamha yalɛab bhal hakka mša imžiht laxyam yalɛab yalɛab bhal hakka lkura ohiyya gatlah dik lamra šibaniyya kbira, gatlah lukan ntaya ražal tamši tžub bent ɛammak lli raha ɛand lghula? bqa lahi išuf ušuf mša ɛand ummah galha kifaš zaɛma ha waš gatli xalti flana, gatlah wah bent ɛammak ddatha lghula xallatha mha mguamtta ugamtat lmahraz kanat ghayra men bentha mɛa zina dat lmahraz uxallat kigullah, galha wah ghani namši nžib bent ɛammi,

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Snow_White

Senhaja Berber > Seddad > Azila > Imokhif.
Recorded 6 December 2016.

Abahlal_Amuḵyus_Seddat

Edited. 
A fairytale in Senhaja Seddat Berber about Abahlal and Amukyus.

Abahlal_Amuḵyus_ed_Seddat

A joke in Eastern Moroccan Arabic (Darija) about a pickup truck recorded in Ain Bni Mathar (Jerada province) in November 2011. A male speaker, ca. 45 years old, Bni Mathar tribe.
Transcription:
Waḥed s-seyyed, ṣaṛža waḥed n-nas f waḥed l… l… l-bikup, bašiya, gal l-hŭm “min tqeṛṛbu l-žadaṛmiya gulu: ‘baɛ baɛ’”. W-rakeb mɛa-hŭm waḥed le-ɛma; l-muhimm, wŭṣlu l-žadaṛmiya; wŭṣlu l-žadaṛmiya, gal l-hŭm: “gulu ‘baɛ’, ṛa-na wṣelna ž-žadaṛmiya”, bqaw ‘baɛ baɛ’... ža ž-žadaṛmi gal l-eh “waš ɛend-ek?”, gal l-eh “ɛend-i ġlem”, wella ṛ-ṛuḷ ḍar l-baš hah, lqa l-ġaši ‘baɛ baɛ’. šafu-h sektu, hadak le-ɛma ma šaf-ah š, bqa ‘baɛ baɛ’, gal l-eh: “hewwed l-baṭwaṛ neddebḥ-ek”.

Translation:
One man loaded some people in a pick-up truck with a tarp-covered back . He told them: “When you approach the gendarmerie, you must say ‘Baa, Baa!’”. 
There was a blind man riding with them. So, they arrived to the gendarmerie, (when) they arrived to the gendarmerie, he told them: “Say ‘Baa,’ we arrived to the gendarmerie”. They kept on, ‘Baa, Baa’. An officer came and said to him: “What do you have?” He answered him: “I have sheep.” He (the officer) went around to the back, he lifted the tarp, he found the people there saying ‘Baa, Baa’. They saw him and they shut up. That blind man did not see him, he kept on ‘Baa, Baa’. He (the officer) said to him: “Come down to the slaughter-house, I will slaughter you!”

ABM_pickup

A fairy-tale in Eastern Moroccan Arabic (Darija) about Handa Umm Lehnud and jealous co-wives recorded in Ain Bni Mathar (Jerada province) in November 2011. A female speaker, ca. 70 years old, Bni Gil tribe.

Handa

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