About this Project
The general aim of AGDAL project is the systematization of phonological correspondences and morphological adaptations in Latin and Greek transcriptions of Paleo-Amazigh phonemes and grammar categories of Northern African toponyms. The linguistic corpus that constitutes the target of AGDAL project is not only one of the largest in onomastics, but also shows a greater diachronic continuity across the middle ages than personal names and ethnonyms, subject to the upheavals of Amazigh tribal society in the middle ages.
The working group of AGDAL project brings together, on the one hand, the researchers that are currently making the most relevant contributions to the progress of Amazigh (Berber) historical and comparative linguistics and, on the other hand, outstanding scholars in other fields of studies relevant to the knowledge of ancient Amazigh populations and settlements, namely Libyan epigraphy, Latin philology of Roman African authors, archaeology of Mauri settlements, Greek epigraphy and archaeology of Cyrenaica and Siwa and Northern African geohistory and anthropology of ancient and medieval Amazigh populations.