ghomara language

The language of the Ghomara is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken on the eastern 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.

Bibliography

Peter Behnstedt, "La frontera entre el bereber y el rabe en el Rif", Estudios de dialectologa norteafricana y andalus vol. 6, 2002.
G. S. Colin, "Le parler berbre des Gmara", Hesperis 9, 1929, pp. 43-58.

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