Tarifit

E28393

Tarifit is a Northern Berber language spoken primarily by the Riffian people in the Rif region of northern Morocco.


Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Berber language
Northern Berber language
closelyRelatedTo Central Atlas Tamazight
Kabyle
Shilha
country Morocco
ethnicGroup Berbers
surface form: "Riffian people"

Riffians
hasAlternativeName Rif Berber
Riffian Berber
Rifian
hasDialects Rifian dialects
hasLinguisticAncestor Afroasiatic languages
surface form: "Proto-Afroasiatic"

Berber languages
surface form: "Proto-Berber"
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction masculine-feminine
plural formation with internal vowel change
root-and-pattern morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
tri-consonantal roots
hasSVOOrder yes (variable word order)
isSpokenBy indigenous population of the Rif
languageCodeISO639-2 rif
languageCodeISO639-3 rif
languageFamilyBranch Zenati Berber
languageStatus recognized regional language in Morocco
partOfLanguageFamily Afroasiatic languages
Berber languages
region North Africa
Rif
scriptOfficialUse Tifinagh
spokenIn Morocco
Rif region
northern Morocco
standardizedAs Standard Moroccan Amazigh (partly)
subfamilyOf Berber languages
surface form: "Northern Berber"
usedBy Amazigh communities in the Rif
usedInEducation Amazigh language teaching programs in Morocco
usedInMedia regional radio in the Rif
regional television in northern Morocco
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: "Arabic script"

Latin script
Tifinagh

Referenced by (3)

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

Berber languages hasLanguage Tarifit
northern Morocco hasLanguage Tarifit
subject surface form: "Northern Morocco"