The language of the Ghomara is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken on the western edge of the Rif in Morocco. Contrary to the Ethnologue, it is not extinct; Peter Behnstedt reports that it is spoken in at least the douar of Amtiqan and its immediate neighborhood, just west of Oued Ouringa. However, it is spoken by only a small minority of the Ghomara; even in 1931, according to Carleton Coon, only one of their eight tribes, the Beni Bu Zra, continued to speak it.

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  • The language of the Ghomara is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken on the western edge of the Rif in Morocco. Contrary to the Ethnologue, it is not extinct; Peter Behnstedt reports that it is spoken in at least the douar of Amtiqan and its immediate neighborhood, just west of Oued Ouringa. However, it is spoken by only a small minority of the Ghomara; even in 1931, according to Carleton Coon, only one of their eight tribes, the Beni Bu Zra, continued to speak it. It is mutually comprehensible with Tarifit.
  • Ghomara ist eine Berbersprache, welche ausschließlich von den Ghomara-Berbern im Rifgebirge im Norden Marokkos gesprochen wird. Ghomara ist eine rein mündliche Sprache, die Sprecher sind zweisprachig und beherrschen auch Arabisch.
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  • The language of the Ghomara is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken on the western edge of the Rif in Morocco. Contrary to the Ethnologue, it is not extinct; Peter Behnstedt reports that it is spoken in at least the douar of Amtiqan and its immediate neighborhood, just west of Oued Ouringa. However, it is spoken by only a small minority of the Ghomara; even in 1931, according to Carleton Coon, only one of their eight tribes, the Beni Bu Zra, continued to speak it.
  • Ghomara ist eine Berbersprache, welche ausschließlich von den Ghomara-Berbern im Rifgebirge im Norden Marokkos gesprochen wird. Ghomara ist eine rein mündliche Sprache, die Sprecher sind zweisprachig und beherrschen auch Arabisch.
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  • Ghomara language
  • Ghomara
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