Efforts to include Berber language in fighting illiteracy
Morocco, Culture, 4/23/2004

Vice-chancellor of the Moroccan Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM), Ahmed Boukous, said, here Thursday, that his institute is working out a plan aiming at including the Berber language (spoken by More than half of the Moroccan population) in efforts to fight illiteracy in the country.

Boukous who was speaking at the opening of a meeting on the "struggle against Amazigh illiteracy " prelude to a lasting development," insisted on such program that will, according to him, benefit all people speaking Amazigh, and take into account their "social and economic realities."

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