Irifiyen

E225397

Irifiyen is the endonym used by the Riffian people, an Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group indigenous to Morocco’s Rif region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Irifiyen canonical 2
Irifiyen (plural) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh people
Berber people
ethnic group
associatedWithCity Ajdir (Rif)
Al Hoceima
Imzouren
Nador
belongsToMacroEthnicity Amazigh
surface form: Imazighen
continent Africa
country Morocco
countryHistoricalContext Morocco
surface form: Kingdom of Morocco
culturalArea Mediterranean coastal zone of northern Morocco
demographicType indigenous population
endonymFor Berbers
surface form: Riffian people
ethnicGroupOf Rif region inhabitants
ethnicIdentity Amazigh
Berbers
surface form: Berber
ethnoLinguisticGroup Riffian Berber
surface form: Riffian Amazigh
ethnonymLanguage Tamazight
geopoliticalContext North Africa
surface form: Maghreb region
hasCollectiveMemoryOf Republic of the Rif
Rif War
hasCulturalRegion Rif
hasEthnonymForm Arifi (singular, masculine)
Irifiyen self-linksurface differs
surface form: Irifiyen (plural)

Tarifit
surface form: Tarifit (singular, feminine, in some usages)
hasExonym Riffians
hasSubregion central Rif
surface form: Central Rif

Eastern Rif
Western Rif
indigenousTo Rif region
locatedIn northern Morocco
surface form: Northern Morocco
partOf Tamazgha
surface form: Amazigh world

Berber world
region Rif Mountains
relatedGroup Central Atlas Tamazight
surface form: Central Atlas Amazigh

Kabyle people
Shilha people
religionMajority Sunni Islam
selfDesignation Irifiyen self-link
usesLanguage Tarifit
usesLanguageFamily Northern Berber
surface form: Northern Berber languages
usesScript Arabic script (historically and currently for local languages)
Latin script (in modern transcriptions)
Tifinagh
surface form: Tifinagh (for Amazigh language representation)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Riffians selfDesignation Irifiyen
Irifiyen hasEthnonymForm Irifiyen self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Irifiyen (plural)
Irifiyen selfDesignation Irifiyen self-link