Meet the people behind a recording. Follow the credited source, identify the language and occasion, and keep a note of what you can actually hear.
Recordings open on their publishers’ websites. We do not host the media, copy lyrics or claim permission to reuse them. The Ghomara research recording links to its own published transcription and French translation. Other entries identify transcript gaps. External availability, subtitles and access rules can change.
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Les Filles de Illighadad: guitar, voices and tendé
Open the label’s credited artist collection and choose one official video. Keep its title and performer credits beside your notes.
Language context: Tuareg repertoire; a variety and lyric translation must be established for each recording.
Credit: Les Filles de Illighadad; recordings and official video links published by Sahel Sounds. Fatou Seidi Ghali is identified by the label as lead vocalist and guitarist.
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External listening on the label’s page. No audio, video, lyrics or cover art is rehosted. No checked complete lyric transcript is supplied here.
Transcript: no checked complete transcript is available in this collection.
Credited external collection
Hawad: the poet reading and speaking
Éditions Amara’s video collection identifies readings, performances, interviews and films. Select a named item, then record its title, speaker and any translator or subtitle credit.
Language context: Tamajaght and French occur in the collection; check the chosen item rather than assuming one language for every video.
Credit: Hawad; collection hosted by Éditions Amara. Some films are credited to Hélène Claudot-Hawad; consult the selected item’s own credits.
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Links open the credited publisher collection. No poem, recording or still is copied, and no checked complete transcript is supplied here.
Transcript: no checked complete transcript is available in this collection.
Credited external collection
Sebeiba: a credited heritage film and its context
The UNESCO element page links the CNRPAH nomination film. Read the account of the ten-day ritual alongside the edited film and distinguish a documented excerpt from a complete ceremony.
Language context: The source provides multilingual explanatory descriptions; these are not a verbatim transcript of the songs.
Credit: CNRPAH, 2014, as credited on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage element page. Practitioners belong to the Djanet communities documented by the nomination.
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External heritage documentation; automated access can be restricted. No film or song is copied. A complete, checked song transcript is not available on this page.
Transcript: no checked complete transcript is available in this collection.
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Zuaran conversations: follow the archive trail
The publisher describes six recorded conversations accompanying Mitchell’s Grammar and Texts and explains their later recovery and digitisation. Use the publisher’s available links; the annotated texts and English translations belong to the book.
Language context: Zuaran Amazigh, western Libya.
Credit: Terence Frederick Mitchell and collaborator Ramadan Azzabi; edited by Harry Stroomer and Stanly Oomen; Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2009. Historical recordings recovered at SOAS and digitised in 2012, according to the publisher.
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Archive guide only: the publisher describes free listening, but the print view inspected did not expose working audio links. Availability must be checked on the external page; book transcripts and recordings are not reproduced.
Transcript: no checked complete transcript is available in this collection.
Credited external collection
Ghomara: a recorded story with transcription and French translation
Choose Audio 4 (Berber), “The lion and the river”, on the university corpus page. Its one-minute account was recorded at Sidi Yehya Aarab on 25 May 2010. Compare the numbered transcription with the French translation supplied there.
Language context: Ghomara Berber and Ghomara Arabic, as identified in the recording metadata; this is one documented performance, not a universal pronunciation model.
Credit: Khalid Mourigh: recording, transcription and translation. CORVAM, University of Zaragoza. Follow the item’s full metadata and reference instructions.
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Audio and text remain on CORVAM. This website provides an attributed access guide and does not reproduce the story, transcript or recording. Source checked 29 October 2026.
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On the source page, choose Audio 4 (Berber), then Transcription or French translation. The external site may open its first audio tab even when a direct link is used. These are credited research materials at the original host; no new translation or independent accuracy review is claimed here.