Language

Berber-Taryfit

Guezenaya Tarifyt Berber

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Language Properties

Some syntactic properties of the language

Word order
Consistently VSO
CommentsTopicalization frequently yields SVO orders, and can yield OVS.

General information about the language

ISO code (ISO 639-3), aka Ethnologue code
RIF
CommentsAlso spelled Tarifit, as it is in Ethnologue
Language name
Berber-Taryfit
Dialect/variety reported
Gueznaya
CommentsGuezenaya Tarifyt Berber spoken in the northern parts of Morocco. It is a variety of Tarifyt Berber
Genetic classification (Ethnologue)
Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Zenati, Riff
Language group (Ethnologue top level)
Afro-Asiatic

Language consultant information

Consultant name
Noureddine Elouazizi
Gender of consultant
male
Learned language at age
CommentsMother tongue.
Familiarity with the language
native speaker
Formal knowledge of the grammar
specialized knowledge, e.g., as language teacher or linguist
Who participated in the elicitation?
Noureddine Elouazizi and Ken Safir using an early version of the Anaphora Questionnaire.

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