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The Ghomara language is a Northern Berber language spoken in Morocco. It is the mother tongue of the Ghomara Berbers , who total around 10,000 people. Ghomara Berber is spoken on the western edge of the Rif , among the Beni Bu Zra and Beni Mansur tribes of the Ghomara confederacy.
- 10,000 (2008)
- Chefchaouen Province
On the other hand, pronouns in Ghomara Berber have mostly a Berber form: nihma ‘they’; netta ‘he’; ḵma nn-ax ‘our brother’. However, there are cases where Arabic pronouns are transferred along with a verb, preposition, particle or other loans: i.e. ɛṭeq-ni ‘save me’ o i-qqel fḥalu lit. ‘he left on his own’.
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Ghomaras. 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 ...
BERBER languages are a close-knit language group, whose internal differences remind one of those in Germanic or Romance. In Berber scientific and political discourse, there is a tendency to play down the differences, and often Berber is represented as one single language with only some superficial regional variation (e.g. Chaker 1995: 9).
The number of Berber speakers is estimated at more than forty million, of which the majority lives in Morocco (about 70 percent speaks Berber, mainly along with other languages). Berber has a general “continuum” makeup, which means that one Berber language gradually merges into another Berber language when they are contiguous. As a result ...
Ghomara (žamaεa / ⵖⵓⵎⴰⵔⴰ) Ghomara is a Northern Berber language spoken in the Tangier-Tetouan region of Chefchaouen Province in northern Morocco by the Bni Buẓra and Bni Menṣur tribes. In 2008 there were about 10,000 speakers. Ghomara is also known as Shilha, Taghumarit or Tamazight.
This dissertation provides a grammatical description of Ghomara Berber, a Berber language spoken in North-Western Morocco by about 10.000 people. The grammar consists of a description of the phonology, the morphology and the syntax. In the appendices a number of texts and a wordlist are included.
