Tarifit Language (rif) - Revision history

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Also Known As: Fifia,Tirifie,Rifia,Shilha,Riff,Northern Shilha,Rif,Rifi...
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Fifia,Tirifie,Rifia,Shilha,Riff,Northern Shilha,Rif,Rifi,Ruafa,Tarifit

<b>Description:</b>

Tarifit (ⵜⴰⵔⵉⴼⵉⵜ, تاريفيت) is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken mainly in the Moroccan Rif and in other cities by about 4 million people. There is about 1 million Tarifit-speaking immigrants in Europe.
Tarifit is a Berber language, belonging to the Zenati subgroup of Northern Berber, and possibly the Rif subgroup of Zenati.
Tarifit is spoken mainly in the Moroccan Rif by about 4 million people, with a large minority in the Spanish Autonomous city of Melilla. There are also speakers of Tarifit in Morocco outside the Rif, among significant communities in Oujda, Tangiers, Tetouan, Larache, Fes, and Casablanca. A substantial Tarifit-speaking community exists in the Netherlands as well as in other European countries including Belgium, Germany, France, and mainland Spain. Its own speakers simply call it Thamazight, or Tamazight, a term also often applied in a broader sense to Berber languages in general.
There is a large amount of dialectal variation in Rif Berber; this can easily be seen using the dialect Atlas (Lafkioui 1997).
Tarifit's most noticeable differences from other Berber languages are that:
Like other Berber languages, Tarifit has been written with<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1116337 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Tarifit Language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Detailed Description:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_rif_detail-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_rif_detail-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Grammar:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_rif_morsyn-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_rif_morsyn-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Map:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_rif_map-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_rif_map-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/morocco Morocco]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-2 Code: </b></td><td>ber</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>rif</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Afro-Asiatic Group]]

    [[Berber Group]]

      [[Northern Berber Group]]

        [[Zenati Group]]

          [[Riff Group]]

            <b>[[Tarifit Language]]</b>

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