Riff languages - Wikipedia

It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:

There seems to be only one source on this supposed Riff branch of the Zenati subfamily. The name is bizarre enough, as it uses the name of one of the languages that are supposedly in it, with most of the other languages not even being close to the Rif mountains. The source itself is dubious as well, it's repeating a 2001 subgrouping of Berber and contains a supposed Berber language, "Zurg", that doesn't actually exist. If necessary, this proposed branch can be added to the Zenati article, but perhaps under a different name still. (proposed by Lankdadank)

If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming, or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason. Although not required, you are encouraged to explain why you object to the deletion, either in your edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, do not replace it.

The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for seven days, i.e., after 19:18, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article so that it is acceptable according to the deletion policy.
Find sources: "Riff languages" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR

Nominator: Please consider notifying the author/project:

{{subst:proposed deletion notify|Riff languages|concern=There seems to be only one source on this supposed Riff branch of the Zenati subfamily. The name is bizarre enough, as it uses the name of one of the languages that are supposedly in it, with 
most of the other languages not even being close to the Rif mountains. The source itself is dubious as well, it's repeating a 2001 subgrouping of Berber and contains a supposed Berber language, "Zurg", that doesn't actually exist.  If necessary, this proposed branch can be added to the Zenati article, but perhaps under a different name still.}} ~~~~

Riff
Riffian
Geographic distribution	North Africa
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Berber Zenati Riff
Language codes
Glottolog	None

In some classifications, the Riff (Rif) languages are a branch of the Zenati Berber languages (Northern Berber), of the Rif area of Morocco, that includes Riffian, one of the major Berber languages.

Blench (2006) considers Riff to be a dialect cluster, consisting of the following varieties:^[1]

References

[edit]

^ AA list, Blench, ms, 2006

This Berber languages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.