Mena Lafkioui: Atlas linguistique des variétés berbères du Rif [PDF]

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The Rif varieties belong to the northern Berber languages and thus to the large Afro-Asiatic language family.

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Description

2007
291 pp.
356 maps, 47 tables, index of maps and tables

Text language: French

The Rif Berber varieties belong to the northern Berber languages and thus are part of the large Afro-Asiatic language phylum. They are spoken by the Rif Berber people in North Morocco, who are segregated from other Berber speakers: in the West by the varieties of Ktama (the so-called Senhaja varieties), in the South by the koinè of Gersif, and in the East by the varieties of the Iznassen, which have spread to the regions of Arabic speaking varieties to the Morocco-Algerian border.

Besides their complex phonological processes, which can influence morphological structures, the Rif Berber varieties are mostly known because of their extreme dialect differences. Linguistic variations analysed in the present book are mainly of horizontal or geographic types, nevertheless also vertical and diachronic types are linguistically analysed due to the relation between geographic diversity and temporal divergence.

Social and individual variations also affect geographic linguistic variation. Factors like social background, sex, age, social class and status belong to both the social and individual part, while the individual diversity additionally includes ideological-historical and psychological aspects.

The data were collected in the period summer 2001 – summer 2003, where the author spent a total of over nine months in the field covering a distance of over more than 400 km, visiting 452 villages of 36 tribes. Most of the varieties spoken in the Rif region are unknown or little documented in the Berber studies. In fact, this geographic area, mainly Berber speaking, is the least scientifically studied one of Morocco. Its economic and socio-political marginalisation, until nowadays, is one of the most significant factors of the lack.

The results and conclusions of the analyses of this book are presented in numerous geographic linguistic maps, showing the corresponding phenomena in context. This book is the first linguistic Atlas in the Berber studies and concerns the Rif area for the first time in Berber geolinguistics.