distinguished by gender. Verbs In Ghomara Berber verbs contain certain affixes that characterize singularity, plurality, and point of view (POV). The following is an example of the verb conjugations for the English word "to write" or ara in Ghomara Berber: Adjectives Adjectives have either suffix -ø, which characterizes masculine singular nouns or -θ, which characterizes both feminine singular and all plural nouns. For example: Masculine singular: tayfur mellulø “the, a white table” Feminine singular: tamɣart mezziθ “the, a little woman” Masculine plural: irgazen muqqreθ “(the) big men” Feminine plural: timettutan muqqreθ “(the) big women” Vocabulary An example of common English words in Ghomara Berber: targat: “dream” ahlan: “welcome, hello” hemmam: “bathroom” tamuda: “pig" lmakla: “food” tanebdut: “summer” kama: “bed” (borrowed from Spanish) Numbers Ghomara Berber uses a numerical system similar to many other languages. Cardinal numbers yan (“one”, masculine) and yat (“one”, feminine) are the only Berber numerals in Ghomara, while all the other cardinal numbers are borrowed from Moroccan Arabic (zuž (“two”), tlata (“three”), ɛišrin (“twenty”), tlatin (“thirty”), etc.). References Further reading Gabriel Camps and J. Vignet-Zunz. 1998. Ghomâra (Ghumara, Ghmara). In Gabriel Camps (ed.), Encyclopédie berbère: Gauda - Girrei, 3110–3119. Aix-en-Provence: Edisud. Colin, Georges S. 1929. Le parler berbère des Ġmāra. Hespéris: (pp. 43–58) archives berbères et bulletin de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Marocaines. (contains much discussion of Ghomara Berber based on Mourigh's materials). Berber languages Languages of Morocco