Tarifit
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- Language: Tarifit
- Alternate names: Rifi, Rifia, Northern Shilha, Shilha
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:rif
- Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Zenati, Riff
- Number of speakers: 1,700,000
- Script: Tifinagh script, Arabic script, Latin script
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Introduction
Tarifit is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken mainly in the Moroccan Rif by about 2.7 million people.
The verb
Sample verb ari 'to go up'.
Past
| Sg.1 | ourigh |
| Sg.2 | tourid |
| Sg.3 m. | iouri |
| Sg.3 f. | touri |
| Pl.1 | nouri |
| Pl.2 m. | tourim |
| Pl.2 f. | tourint |
| Pl.3 m. | ourin |
| Pl.3 f. | ourint |
Present and Future
| Sg.1 | ad arigh |
| Sg.2 | attarid |
| Sg.3 m. | adiari |
| Sg.3 f. | attari |
| Pl.1 | anari |
| Pl.2 m. | attarim |
| Pl.2 f. | attarint |
| Pl.3 m. | adiarin |
| Pl.3 f. | attarint |