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Ethnic group
The Ghomara (
Arabic : غمارة ,
Berber languages : ⵉⵖⵎⴰⵔⵏ Ighmarn ) are a group of tribes in northern
Morocco of about 12,000 people[
dubious –
discuss ] ,[
citation needed ] living between the rivers
Oued Laou and Ouringa, east of
Chefchaouen and south of
Tetouan , in the Western
Rif . The river Tiguisas runs through their territory.
[2]
Originally, Ghomaras were a Berber tribal group belonging to the
Masmuda confederacy. While most have shifted to speaking
Arabic , a minority continue to speak the
Berber
Ghomara language .
[2]
Tribes
The Ghomaras are traditionally divided into nine tribes:
[2]
Ait Bouzra, partially
Berber speaking tribe
Ait Grir
Ait Khaled
Ait Mansour, partially
Berber speaking tribe
Ait Rezin
Ait Selman
Ait Smih
Ait Zejel
Ait Ziat
Bibliography
G. Camps & J. Vignet-Zunz,
"Ghomâra" , Encyclopédie berbère, vol.20 , 1998, pp. 3110–3119
Jamal el Hannouche,
"Arabic influence in Ghomara Berber" , Leiden University, 2010.
Jamal el Hannouche,
"Ghomara Berber, a brief grammatical survey" , Leiden University, 2008.
Peter Behnstedt,
"La frontera entre el bereber y el árabe en el Rif " , Estudios de dialectología norteafricana y andalusí vol. 6, 2002.
Georges Séraphin Colin, "Le parler berbère des Ghomara", Hesperis 9, 1929, pp. 43–58.
References
^ A. Zouggari & J. Vignet-Zunz, "Jbala: Histoire et société", in Sciences Humaines , (1991), p.463. (
ISBN
2-222-04574-6 )
^
a
b
c G. Camps & J. Vignet-Zunz, "Ghomâra", in Encyclopédie berbère , vol. 20, 1998
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