Publication: Historical Linguistics at the Crossroads of the Humanities and Social Sciences. A Tribute to Salem Chaker

24 June 2026

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LACNAD — Languages and Cultures of North Africa and Diasporas (Inalco)—is pleased to announce the publication of the proceedings of the conference “Historical Linguistics at the Crossroads of the Humanities and Social Sciences,” which was held at the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco (Rabat, February 18–19, 2025), in honor of the linguist Salem Chaker.
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La Linguistique historique au carrefour des sciences humaines et sociales, 2026 © CCME‎
Historical Linguistics at the Crossroads of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Based on Salem Chaker’s latest book

Conference proceedings compiled and edited by Abdellah Bounfour, Rabat, Editions Carrefour des Livres, 2026, 325 pp.

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Salem Chaker is a professor emeritus of Berber studies affiliated with IREMAM at Aix-Marseille University, where he spent most of his career, as well as with INALCO (Paris). He is a specialist in descriptive and historical Berber linguistics and the author of several books and numerous articles and entries on linguistics and sociolinguistics. He edits The Berber Encyclopedia.

Video: Watch the roundtable discussion organized on Friday, May 8, 2026, by the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) at the Rabat Book Fair to present the proceedings of the academic conference. Moderated by Abdellah Bounfour, a specialist in Maghreb literature, the panel featured linguist Meftaha Ameur, Tunisian historian and archaeologist Mansour Ghaki, and translator Anne-Marie Teeuwissen.

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Amazigh Linguistics: A Tribute to Salem Chaker (CCME, May 8, 2026)