Tarifit
Zenati Berber language of northern Morocco / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tarifit Berber, also known as Riffian or locally as Tamazight (Tarifit: Tmaziɣt [θmæzɪχt], Arabic: تريفيت) is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the Rif region in northern Morocco. It is spoken natively by some 1,271,000[3][4] Rifians primarily in the Rif provinces of Al Hoceima, Nador and Driouch. Tarifit is strongly influenced by the Arabic language, and borrowed foreign loanwords represent 51.7% of the total Tarifit vocabulary (56.1% of nouns and 44.1% of verbs).[5]
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Tarifit | |
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Tarifiyt, Riffian, Tamazight, تريفيت | |
Tmaziɣt | |
Pronunciation | [θmæzɪχt] |
Native to | Northern Morocco |
Region | Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma and Oriental (Morocco) |
Ethnicity | Rifians |
Native speakers | 1.3 million (2004)[1][2] |
Latin, Arabic script, Tifinagh (symbolically) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | rif |
Glottolog | tari1263 |
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