Ghomaras
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Template:Infobox ethnic group The Ghomara (Template:Langx, Template:Langx Ighmaren) are a group of tribes in northern Morocco belonging to the Berbers. They live in the western Rif, in the area of Chefchaouen and Tetouan.<ref name="EB">G. Camps & J. Vignet-Zunz, "Ghomâra", in Encyclopédie berbère, vol. 20, 1998</ref>
Originally, Ghomaras were a Berber tribal group belonging to the Masmuda confederacy. While most have shifted to speaking Arabic, a minority continue to speak the Berber Ghomara language.<ref name="EB" />
Tribes
The Ghomaras are traditionally divided into nine tribes:<ref name="EB" />
- Beni Bouzra
- Beni Grir
- Beni Khaled
- Beni Mansour
- Beni Rezin
- Beni Selman
- Beni Smih
- Beni Zejel
- Beni Ziat
Bibliography
- G. Camps & J. Vignet-Zunz, "Ghomâra", Encyclopédie berbère, vol.20, 1998, pp. 3110–3119
- Jamal el Hannouche, "Arabic influence in Ghomara Berber", Leiden University, 2010.
- Jamal el Hannouche, "Ghomara Berber, a brief grammatical survey", Leiden University, 2008.
- Peter Behnstedt,"La frontera entre el bereber y el árabe en el Rif", Estudios de dialectología norteafricana y andalusí vol. 6, 2002.
- Georges Séraphin Colin, "Le parler berbère des Ghomara", Hesperis 9, 1929, pp. 43–58.
References
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