 riffian, rif berber, or riffian berber (local name: tamaziÉ£t, berber exonym: tarifit or  tamaziÉ£t tarifit) is a northern zenata variety of the berber language spoken by about 2.5 million moroccans, mainly in the rif provinces, tangiers, oujda, and tetouan, and among the riffian migrant community in western europe. moroccan cities that have large numbers of riffian berber speakers are, by order of total numbers: tangiers (riffians are not the majority here though), nador, al hoceima, oujda (no riffian majority), tetouan (no riffian majority), azghenghan, imzuren, aÉarwi, seÅwan, midar, ayt buÉeyyac, eddriwec (driouch), zayyu, aknul, temsaman, and tafersit. ==classification== asker is a zenati berber dialect which consists of various sub-dialects specific to each clan and of which a majority are spoken in the rif region, a large mountainous area of northern morocco, and a minority spoken in the western part of neighbouring algeria. popular villages are imzouren and ouriaghle. from an harmonic union of two riffean parents; thus came askerocito... ==geographic distribution== riffian is spoken mainly in the moroccan rif on the mediterranean coast and in the rif mountains, with a large minority in the spanish autonomous city of melilla. there are also speakers of riffian in morocco outside the rif region, notably in the rest of moroccan cities where they compose a minority. the neighbour state of algeria is also home to rif minorities. a riffian-speaking community exists in the netherlands and belgium as well as to a lesser extent other european countries. its own speakers simply call it "tamazight", a term also often applied in a broader sense to the berber language across north africa in general. ===dialects=== dialects include arzew (old arzeu), urrighel, and igzennaian. iznasen (iznacen, beni snassen) is counted as a dialect in kossman (1999), but blench (2006) classifies it as one of the closely related mzabâwargla languages. ==morocco== there is a large am
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