Eastern Middle Atlas Berber

Eastern Middle Atlas Berber
Tmazight, Tamazight
Native toMorocco
RegionCentral Morocco: Middle Atlas
Native speakers
150,000–200,000 (2013, est.)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
Tifinagh, Arabic, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologeast2803
  Eastern Middle Atlas Berber

Eastern Middle Atlas Berber is a cluster of Berber dialects spoken in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the Middle Atlas, in Morocco. These dialects are those of the tribes of Ait Seghrouchen, Ait Warayn, Marmoucha, Ait Alaham, Ait Youb and Ait Mourghi.[2][3][4]

Despite the fact that they are mutually intelligible with neighbouring Central Atlas Tamazight dialects and are generally classified among them, these dialects actually belong to the Zenati languages and are intermediate dialects between the Riffian and Atlas languages.[5][1][6]

Among these Zenati dialects, those of Ait Seghrouchen and Ait Warayn were subject to most studies, while only a few studies were focused on the dialects of Ait Alaham and Marmoucha, and practically none focused on the dialects of Ait Youb and Ait Mourghi.

References

  1. ^ a b Kossmann, Maarten (2013). The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. Vol. 67. Brill. pp. 20–22. ISBN 978-90-04-25308-7.
  2. ^ Bernard, Augustin; Moussard, Paul (1924-05-15). "Arabophones et berbérophones au Maroc". Annales de géographie. 33 (183). A. Colin: 275. doi:10.3406/geo.1924.9671. JSTOR 23439805.
  3. ^ Bourrilly, J. (1932). Éléments d'éthnographie marocaine. Larose. p. 42.
  4. ^ Colin, G. S. (1934). "Carte linguistique du Maroc". Archived from the original on 2023-07-12.
  5. ^ "Bulletin bibliographique". Revue d'ethnographie et des traditions populaires. 2. Société française d'ethnographie: 68. January 1921.
  6. ^ Kossmann, Maarten (January 2011). "Berber subclassification (preliminary version)". Chapter Proposed for the Oxford Handbook of African Languages, ed. By Rainer Vossen: 2–3.


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