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.
subject surface form: "Northern Morocco"