MultiTree:

Name: Tarifit Alternate Names: Berber (Rif); Rifi; Rifia; Northern Shilha; Shilha; Tirifie; Riff; Ruafa; Fifia; Rif; Tamazight (Ait Rouadi) (in French); Tamazight (Arzew) (in French); Tamazight (Beni Iznassen) (in French); Tamazight (Tunisie) (in French); Tamazight (Túnez) (in Spanish) Spoken in: Belgium, Spain, France, Algeria, Germany, Netherlands, Morocco, Tunisia Number of speakers: 1,500,000 in Morocco (1991). Population total all countries: 1,700,000 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 38637 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 1700000 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: rif Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Afro-Asiatic Parent Subgroup: Riff (riff) Child Dialects: Beni Iznassen; Beni Snassen; Iznacen (rif-ben) Urrighel (rif-urr) Arzeu; Old Arzeu (rif-arz) Igzennaian (rif-igz)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed