Afro-Asiatic family

Riffian (Tarifit)

c. 500 CE – today Living

Riffian (Tarifit) (c. 500 CE – today) is a living Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Berber → Riffian (Tarifit).

See Riffian (Tarifit) on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
rif
Glottocode
tari1263

Zenati Berber language of the Rif in northern Morocco, with a large diaspora in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Berberc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
  3. Riffian (Tarifit)c. 500 CE – today

Sister languages 4

Also descended from Proto-Berber.

Sources