TARIFIT/RIFFIAN LANGUAGE, PEOPLE, & CULTURE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
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Correction: Native speakers between 4-6 million not only 1.5 million
also, the Tarifit language is a minority language in the Northwestern part of Algeria.
Azul! Ism inu d Andy. Mamec teǧid?
Hello! My name is Andy. How are you?
Let's talk about the Tarifit language.
Tarifit is a Tamazight language spoken by about 1.5 million people, primarily in Northern Morocco and in diaspora communities across Europe. It is the native language of the Riffian people and belongs to the Zenati subgroup of the Tamazight/Berber family, closely related to Chawiya and Mzab, and somewhat intelligible with other Northern Tamazight languages like Shilha and Kabylian. Tarifit can be divided into three major groups: Western, Central, and Eastern. Western and Central dialects have experienced significant sound changes, distinguishing them from other Tamazight/Berber languages, while the Eastern dialect has not. Each tribe in the Rif region has its own distinct dialectal features.
During the European colonial era, Spain controlled the Rif region in Africa. Dissatisfied with colonial rule, the Riffian tribes, led by Abd el-Krim al Khattabi, fought for independence, resulting in the Rif Republic from 1921 to 1926, with Tarifit as its de facto official language. The Riffians, or Irifiyen, are a Tamazight ethnic group native to the Rif mountains in Northern Morocco, primarily residing in the provinces of Nador, Al Hoceima, and Driouch, with smaller communities in nearby provinces and cities like Tangier. They are organized into multiple tribes, each historically distinguished by unique clothing, accessories, and cultural practices. The largest tribes are the Ayt Waryagher in the West, Iqerɛiyen in the Central North, and Ibdarsen in the South. The Ayt Iznassen tribe in the East is sometimes considered part of the Riffians, but sometimes seen as separate. The Riffians have a long history in the region, with records dating back to the Emirate of Nekur, established in 710.
Traditional Riffian men's clothing includes a hooded tunic, a turban, and esparto grass sandals. Women traditionally wear a dress and accessorize with engagement jewelry made from silver coins, amber, and coral. Notable accessories include diadem, necklaces and silver bracelets. Music and poetry are significant in Riffian culture. Traditional sung poetry, known as izran, is performed by young women during leisure and weddings, often focusing on love, with the couplet "Ya Ralla Buya" frequently repeated. Imedyazen, traveling musicians, performed at weddings using the tambourine. Modern Riffian poetry, called tiqessisin, continues to be valued, with artists creating works about Riffian history and culture.
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Correction: Native speakers between 4-6 million not only 1.5 million
also, the Tarifit language is a minority language in the Northwestern part of Algeria.
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Most moroccans in belgium and the Netherlands are also riff
@@Ilovelanguages Thanks for including tharificht. Little corrections here and there. You pronounced tharifith/tharificht the way an asousi or achelhi would.
We pronounce it a few ways as riffians ourself: tharifith, trifacht, tharificht. So you're a little incorrect Andy [that's your name right]? There are at least 9 million riffians in morocco at least in Arrif.
We consist of 16 tribes. I myself am a riffian as well, my tribe was nicknamed by the spanish [invaders] who called our ancestors: centaurs because they were also either on their horses or on a camel.
They almost never saw our grandparents and great grandparents walking😂. And little fun fact. You actually used mostly the n-riffian dialect. I myself speak more of central-east riffian leaning dialect.
I can understand n-riffians but some of them seem to struggle with my dialect. I wish you included more tribes in the introduction though.
You mentioned ibdarsen and iqer'iyen but forgot about the tribe in between these 2: aith bouyahyi which I belong to. I also have some ancestory from iqer'iyen and ait said.
Oh another little fun fact: to some tribes saying: amadhyaz/amadyaz is consider a bad word. Where I'm from it means someone who's shameless😂. But yes originally it was just used for folkkloric riffian music this is true.
@@Ilovelanguages Thanks for including tharificht. Little corrections here and there. You pronounced tharifith/tharificht the way an asousi or achelhi would.
We pronounce it a few ways as riffians ourself: tharifith, trifacht, tharificht. So you're a little incorrect Andy [that's your name right]? There are at least 9 million riffians in morocco at least in Arrif.
We consist of 16 tribes. I myself am a riffian as well, my tribe was nicknamed by the spanish [invaders] who called our ancestors: centaurs because they were also either on their horses or on a camel.
They almost never saw our grandparents and great grandparents walking😂. And little fun fact. You actually used mostly the n-riffian dialect. I myself speak more of central-east riffian leaning dialect.
I can understand n-riffians but some of them seem to struggle with my dialect. I wish you included more tribes in the introduction though.
You mentioned ibdarsen and iqer'iyen but forgot about the tribe in between these 2: aith bouyahyi which I belong to. I also have some ancestory from iqer'iyen and ait said.
Oh another little fun fact: to some tribes saying: amadhyaz/amadyaz is consider a bad word. Where I'm from it means someone who's shameless😂. But yes originally it was just used for folkkloric riffian music this is true.
@Ilovelanguages Thanks for including tharificht. Little corrections here and there. You pronounced tharifith/tharificht the way an asousi or achelhi would.
We pronounce it a few ways as riffians ourself: tharifith, trifacht, tharificht. So you're a little incorrect Andy [that's your name right]? There are at least 9 million riffians in morocco at least in Arrif.
We consist of 16 tribes. I myself am a riffian as well, my tribe was nicknamed by the spanish [invaders] who called our ancestors: centaurs because they were also either on their horses or on a camel.
They almost never saw our grandparents and great grandparents walking😂. And little fun fact. You actually used mostly the n-riffian dialect. I myself speak more of central-east riffian leaning dialect.
I can understand n-riffians but some of them seem to struggle with my dialect. I wish you included more tribes in the introduction though.
You mentioned ibdarsen and iqer'iyen but forgot about the tribe in between these 2: aith bouyahyi which I belong to. I also have some ancestory from iqer'iyen and ait said.
Oh another little fun fact: to some tribes saying: amadhyaz/amadyaz is consider a bad word. Where I'm from it means someone who's shameless😂. But yes originally it was just used for folkkloric riffian music this is true.
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Keep going 🙌
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THISSSS!! It offers easy access to knowledge and I love that fact. I can only wish to do this type of thing. Keep up the good work, Andy!
THANK YOU!!! Tharifit is my language so I'm really happy that you've made a video about it ❤
Azul zi Natha (Nador)
@Nermine_SHIN_CHANG Azul zi Imzouan!
@rep1987 Mamsh je'em thini?
سلام يوماثن ن الريف. تحوبيغ إريفين آطاس آطاس. نتش شاوي ن اذرار اوراس دزاير
Salam brothers in rif. I love Rifi people a lot. I am a Shawi berber from Aures mountain Algeria
Salam alaikom awma. Nishin ghaneg awar 3rain kif kif.
Greetings from Kurdish people to the amazigh/ Berber people❤️ keep your language and the Islam. It describes your history, your culture and your country. You are strong people 💪🏽
❤☀️💚🤝♓️ 🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳🇲🇷
Azul flawen/asalamu alaykum my kurdish brother or sister. Much love to you guys as well! We support you the same way. But please stop calling us the b-word it is a racial slur created by greek and romans😢. We don't use it because it means savage. Imazighen means free and noble people. We need a non-arab/native lead united islamic empire.
Kurds and imazighen can do so much more for the ummah then most arabs combined this is a fact! May Allah unite us under the banner of Islam without turkic or arab [invasion] amin!
Azul flawen/asalamu alaykum my kurdish brother or sister. Much love to you guys as well! We support you the same way. But please stop calling us the b-word it is a racial slur created by greek and romans😢. We don't use it because it means savage. Imazighen means free and noble people. We need a non-arab/native lead united islamic empire.
Kurds and imazighen can do so much more for the ummah then most arabs combined this is a fact! May Allah unite us under the banner of Islam without turkic or arab [invasion] amin!
😮@@Thamazgha-tamurth-enegh
Assalamu 3alaykom, much love to you guys. Also continue on speaking kurdish and don’t forget your culture and language! Herbiji kurdistan❤
Rifains are true Amazighs, love from Kabylia
All Berbers are indigenous of Northern Africa.
@@dalubwikaan161We are not called the b-word we are imazighen. Sram i yzen i aythma ad yasma iqvayliyen! You are also true warriors and a pride to all of us❤!
We are not called the b-word we are imazighen.
@alexa Sram i yzen i aythma ad yasma iqvayliyen! You are also true warriors and a pride to all of us❤!
I'm kabyle. I somewhat understand the riffian language
@@globetrotter5751stop spreading misinformation ay aghyur
It is a language influenced by Arabic, as is the Kabyle language
@@globetrotter5751dude, what's up? are you doing alright? you keep commenting needlessly rude things about languages. they exist however they exist, they don't need to exist how you wish them to.
I didn't meant that it's ruined i just meant that it's influenced and that's what make kabyle special , unique and beautiful
Is kabyle the native language of Zinedine Zidane?
Language of the Rif warriors who fought the Spaniards! ♊️⚔️🇪🇸
@@globetrotter5751 An obvious troll. I have no intention to speak with you.
Funny that, considering how the Amazigh-Berber population has recently been on the rise and that the Arabised Berbers are simply emigrating outwards 🙃@@globetrotter5751
@@globetrotter5751berbers are minority
Despite the fact many Amazighs have high birthrates which explains the rise in population of them and hence the rise of this language's numbers as well? Has the asthma set in too much yet or am I supposed to laugh at your comments?@@globetrotter5751
@@globetrotter5751???
l have been learning english for two years ago and right know I want to learn my original Tarifit .
Make also about Siwa Oasis Berber dialect
She need volunteer
We use arabic numbers but we do understand the numbers in Tamazight. Thank you for the video
Who are you ?
yeah we use both depending on who youre speaking to. i feel like the reason we use arabic numerals is because of the large amount of darija speakers in morocco.
Greetings from Algeria 🇩🇿🇲🇦
delete the moroccan flag
@@PRTV4027 What is wrong with you, the only thing separating us is the border, we are all the same people.
@@SultanSully97 I'm riffian i live with you i know who you are
Ma 3ana man 3mlo b infisaliyin skot xwiya@@PRTV4027
Interesting! Thanks!
Great deep dive.
In the east it's the Ait touzine.
The list goes as follows from biggest to smallest:
1. Aït Waryagher (Beni Waryaghil)
• Location: North-central Rif, around the area of Al Hoceima.
• Size: One of the largest and most influential tribes.
2. Aït Touzine (Beni Touzine)
• Location: Eastern Rif, around the town of Driouch.
• Size: Large and historically significant.
3. Aït Iznasen (Beni Iznasen)
• Location: Eastern Rif, near the Algerian border.
• Size: Large, spread out across the eastern region.
4. Aït Ouriaghel (Beni Ouriaghel)
• Location: Central Rif, around Taza.
• Size: One of the larger tribes, known for its historical role.
5. Aït Itteft (Beni Itteft)
• Location: Central Rif region.
• Size: Medium to large.
6. Aït Bouyafar (Beni Bouayach)
• Location: North-central Rif, near the coast around Bouayach.
• Size: Medium, with coastal influence.
7. Aït Said (Beni Said)
• Location: Northeastern Rif, near the Mediterranean coast.
• Size: Medium.
8. Aït Iznaten (Beni Iznaten)
• Location: Western Rif.
• Size: Medium, with historical significance.
9. Aït Amart (Beni Amart)
• Location: Central Rif.
• Size: Smaller compared to other tribes.
10. Aït Oulichek (Beni Oulichek)
• Location: Eastern Rif.
• Size: Smaller tribe, more localized.
11. Aït Gmil (Beni Gmil)
• Location: Southwestern Rif.
• Size: Smaller tribe, less influential.
12. Aït Boufrah (Beni Boufrah)
• Location: Western Rif.
• Size: Smaller, located closer to the coast.
Ayt Tuzin isn't counted as East from Dialect perspective, it's the Central Dialect. East is: Zaio, Kebdana, Berkane Area. Central is: Nador, Ben Tayeb, Driouch, Midar, Tafersit, Temsaman areas. West is basically everything west from the Oued Nekor: From Bni bouayach / Imzouren all the way to Targuist.
Get your ChatGPT yap session out of here
The next: Comparison between Moroccan Darija vs Tarifit
As an atlas anammas i understood most of it. azul fellawen a oultma distma negh zi rif :D
Thanks Andy for incredible contant and effort ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
BTW... what happned to the kabyle/taqbylit language video ?
why don' you have social media official pages ??
It's reuploaded th-cam.com/video/HRczyr6Hv3w/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ILoveLanguages%21
I currently don't have any official social media pages, but I hope to in the future. :D
Finally
I'd love to see a comparison of Icelandic and Sinhalese.
Two extremes of the Indo-European Family's extent. Could be interesting :)
Love how many vocabularies u included. I wouldve still listened if it was 10 times a many
Rif ino ❤
I wish Tifinagh were more appreciated and used for Riffian
yeah, but due to spanish influences we use the latin script. in some formal cases the tifinagh is still being used.
there are also many arabized riffian people in northwestern algeria
Finallyyyyyyyyy tarifit lesgoo
I wish that you do a video about kabyle like that one
Here :D th-cam.com/video/HRczyr6Hv3w/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ILoveLanguages%21
@@ilovelanguages0124 that's awesome 🖤
Next make video on kamatapuri and koch language
Do belgorod dialect pleace
I have a request for you, can you make a video about the Ghana language because I want to learn it?
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Is this some kind of Semitic or Berber language?
Its a Berber language
Mix it's like : 57% Semetic, 40% Berber , 3% Others ( Spanish and french )
@@oussamatalha1903lol no its not
@@oussamatalha1903 what the hell are you saying? it is a berber language consisting of 72% Native words the rest are either Spanish or Arab loanwords
@@RiffianHasjFarmer u can search there are 50% of Arabic in the Rif dialect the most arabized Berber dialect
We call it Tamazight not tarifit ...we never call our accent(language) tarifit never...it's Tamazight
We litteraly call it tarifit or tarifect
Who is we lmao..it is tarifit
@@abuqadr629 he is right we always say tmazight and never use the word tarifit (even though it wouldn't be wrong)
@@shaolinkungfu861 generally yea but its important to differentiate what Tamazight language we are talking about. Tachelhit is different than tarifit for example. So if he wants to make a video of tarifit, he should call it tarifit
@@abuqadr629agreed
Ḥ is pronounced ح not kh/خ
Idea: could you make Iraqi Arabic and Persian?
Does it use arabic or latin script?
Mostly latin, sometimes tifinagh
Both + tifinagh. Officially arabic, but for everyday life, we often use latin script with numbers actually. Since some numbers look like arabic letters and they dont exist phonetically in latin scripts. Like sba7l khayr. 7 is suppoused to be ح. That strong arabic Hhh.
Or 3ayn 3=ع
@@abuqadr629 what do you mean officially? Have you read Tarifit literature, academic books, dictionaries? Most of them use latin, and none of them use numbers for letters in latin you can use: ḥ and ɛ for the 7 and 3. If you add the latin tamazight keyboard to your phone these are also the letters used, so not sure what you're claiming.
@@AzalnArif officially like writings on buildings etc. there U See mostly Arabic, sometimes latin rarely tifinagh. Like in nador airport
In everyday life like on WhatsApp ppl use Latin with numbers. Never seen someone using that h with a dot or that lil 3
riffians mostly use the latin script due to spanish colonialism and roman influence during the ancient times. but tifinagh is also used sometimes in formal occasionts. arabic isnt really used.
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I speak tarifit i from mnoud wich
Izran is performed mainly by both man and woman
Tarifit & tashlhit
te języki są bardzo ciekawe i wyjątkowe, szkoda że tak mało znane w Europie
First
ALLAH BLESS THE BERBERS
🇲🇦❤️
Long Liiive!!! 😈😡👽
Bareqi Arabic, please
wrong numbers!
نحن عرب و المغرب أرض عربية 🇲🇦❤
المغرب ليس أرض عربية
تكلم عن نفسك
@@rep1987 نحن المغاربة عرب من قبيلة بنو هلال ❤ ض
@@arabic...309في احلامك 😂
@@arabic...309 نقول من قبيلة بني هلال و ليس من قبيلة بنو هلال. أنت لا تعرف حتى العربية.
It's a moroccan dialect rif is moroccan 🙄🇲🇦
Moroccan is not a language, it’s a country. It is a dialect of the Tamazight language family, that’s more factual.
@@AzalnArif Morocco has many languages tamazight and arabic and darija and chacun of them had its dialects
Nobody said that the Rif isn’t Moroccan
Is this even a language?
No its an animal
what's that supposed to mean?
Yes, one with culture and history. The language of strong and free people ♊️
@@srg25008RAGHHH FREEDOM!
We are Arabs ❤️🇲🇦
Talk about yourself
It’s great for you if you feel like that. Imazighen are not Arab and most Moroccans are Arabized zenatis und Masmudas.
Morrocans are NOT Arabs
@@srg25008 And Zenagis and Luatis and Huaris.
@@srg25008 You forgot about Zenaga.
Thanks for video 👋🏻ⵝⴰⵏⴻⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ ⵉ ⵛⴽ
Finally tarifit-nneɣ ❤
@@globetrotter5751 ?
@@globetrotter5751your kabyle dialect became a bad mediocre creole(arab french) ay aqvayli
@@Kunta-Kinte002he probably isnt from kabyle brother, just ignore him, jj ad yecc yemmas
@@hecker4342 i am a kabyle, but it's really awful because, taqvaylit and tarifit yiwet teghrit it yewten a gma...
@@hecker4342 he is making fun of riffian Berber, but he forgot the actual kabyle is no more pure comparing with 80 years ago.....