{"id":1712,"date":"2018-01-15T15:37:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2018-01-15T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T15:37:46","slug":"algerias-berbers-protest-for-tamazight-language-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Berbers protest for Tamazight language rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Berber communities in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/algeria.html\">Algeria<\/a>\u00a0are calling on the government to allocate state funding to promote and preserve their indigenous language, a demand that has prompted several protests in the country&#8217;s northern region this week. The protests come after an amendment to 2018 budget legislation that would have formalised the teaching of the Tamazight language in local schools was rejected by members of parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/algeria-berbers-protest-tamazight-language-rights-171213185709684.html\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Article originally published on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/algeria-berbers-protest-tamazight-language-rights-171213185709684.html\"><strong> Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berber communities in\u00a0Algeria\u00a0are calling on the government to allocate state funding to promote and preserve their indigenous language, a demand that has prompted several protests in the country&#8217;s northern region this week. The protests come after an amendment to 2018 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1712\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[354,428,427,426],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-north-africa","tag-protests","tag-rights","tag-tamazight-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}