Ghomaras

Map of the Ghomara tribes and their territories^[1]

The Ghomara are a group of tribes in northern Morocco, living between the rivers Oued Laou and , east of Chefchaouen and south of Tetouan, in the Western Rif. The river runs through their territory.^[2]

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.^[2]

Tribes[]

The Ghomaras are traditionally divided into nine tribes:^[2]

• Beni Ziat
• Beni Zejel
• Beni Selman
• Beni Bu Zra, partially Berber speaking tribe
• Beni Mansur, partially Berber speaking tribe
• Beni Grir
• Beni Smih
• Beni Rezin
• Beni Khaled

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.

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