by Erik Lubben Afroasiatic Languages Image Source Here is an interesting case of language activism that comes to us from Salem Shaker, professor and specialist of Berber at INALCO , Institut National des Languages et Civilisations Orientales , France, in his article " Berber, a 'Long-Forgotten' Language of France ." Hopeless to see all efforts of language revitalization go to waste, Berber language activist move to France in the second half of the 20th century and establish many centers of Berber language and culture centers in Paris and other parts of the country. This leads to the curious fact since the end of the French-Algerian war, 1962, “the majority of the production in or regarding the Berber language was carried out in France.” (Shaker 5). Grammars, dictionaries, scholarly publications… Paris becomes the center of corpus planning for Berber, an Afro-asiatic language with many distinct dialects spoken in North Africa. Even though these Berber languag...