Tarifit
Tmazight or Tarifit Berber, also known as Riffian (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 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).
| Tarifit | |
|---|---|
| Tarifiyt, Riffian, Tmazight, تريفيت | |
| Tmaziɣt | |
| Pronunciation | [θmæzɪχt] |
| Native to | Northern Morocco |
| Region | Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma and Oriental (Morocco) |
| Ethnicity | Rifians |
Native speakers | 1.3 million (2004) |
| Latin, Arabic script, Tifinagh (symbolically) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rif |
| Glottolog | tari1263 |
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