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Souag L (2007). Mena Lafkioui. 2007. Atlas linguistique des variétés berbères. Afrikanistik online, Vol. 2007. (urn:nbn:de:0009-10-11900)
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%0 Journal Article %T Mena Lafkioui. 2007. Atlas linguistique des variétés berbères %A Souag, Lameen %J Afrikanistik online %D 2007 %V 2007 %N 4 %@ 1860-7462 %F souag2007 %X In the mountainous landscape of northeastern Morocco, a fairly large geographically contiguous Berber-speaking area with a few million inhabitants is to be found, called the Rif. Its people are generally described as speaking a single Zenati Northern Berber language, Tarifit, apart from in its southwestern corner, where another non-Zenati Northern Berber language, Senhaji, may be distinguished. While such a description is well-founded as far as it goes, it often represents a great oversimplification, as Mena Lafkioui's work reveals. Historical linguists looking at innovations within Berber, typologists examining diversity, syntacticians looking at microvariation, anthropologists seeking to trace migrations - all will benefit greatly from this work, which makes it both possible and imperative to resist the temptation to say “Tarifit does so-and-so” in favour of a more nuanced account of variation within the Rif. Even many elements commonly thought of as characteristic of the Rif, such as the sound change l > r, are revealed to be in truth characteristics of a particular central area within the Rif, with older forms still conserved along the outskirts, or to be just a particular case within a large array of forms. %L 490 %K Berber %K Morocco %K Rif %U http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-10-11900Download
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author = "Souag, Lameen",
title = "Mena Lafkioui. 2007. Atlas linguistique des vari{\'e}t{\'e}s berb{\`e}res",
journal = "Afrikanistik online",
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| Bibliographic Citation | Afrikanistik Online, Vol. 2007, Iss. 4 |
|---|---|
| Title |
Mena Lafkioui. 2007. Atlas linguistique des variétés berbères (eng) |
| Author | Lameen Souag |
| Language | eng |
| Abstract | In the mountainous landscape of northeastern Morocco, a fairly large geographically contiguous Berber-speaking area with a few million inhabitants is to be found, called the Rif. Its people are generally described as speaking a single Zenati Northern Berber language, Tarifit, apart from in its southwestern corner, where another non-Zenati Northern Berber language, Senhaji, may be distinguished. While such a description is well-founded as far as it goes, it often represents a great oversimplification, as Mena Lafkioui's work reveals. Historical linguists looking at innovations within Berber, typologists examining diversity, syntacticians looking at microvariation, anthropologists seeking to trace migrations - all will benefit greatly from this work, which makes it both possible and imperative to resist the temptation to say “Tarifit does so-and-so” in favour of a more nuanced account of variation within the Rif. Even many elements commonly thought of as characteristic of the Rif, such as the sound change l > r, are revealed to be in truth characteristics of a particular central area within the Rif, with older forms still conserved along the outskirts, or to be just a particular case within a large array of forms. |
| Subject | Berber, Morocco, Rif |
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| DDC | 490 |
| Rights | DPPL |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:0009-10-11900 |
