Jebli Arabic
Jebli (Jebelia) is a pre-Hilalian Arabic dialect spoken in the mountains of the north of Morocco.
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Native to | Morocco |
Ethnicity | Jbalas, Ghomaras, Sanhajas de Srayr |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (included in ary) |
Glottolog | jebl1238 [1] |
Ethnolinguistic map of northern Morocco: purple represents Jebli-speaking areas, blue represents other pre-Hilalian Arabic-speaking areas (old Urban, Zerhoun and Sefrou area) |
The historical development of this Moroccan dialect is unclear.
The word jebli means "of/from the mountain". It is mainly spoken in the western and southern Rif by tribes of Sherifian, Berber and Morisco descent over the past ten centuries.
- Jbalas: all the forty-four tribes speak Jebli Arabic ;
- Ghomaras: out of nine tribes, seven are fully Jebli-speaking, the two remaining are partially Jebli-speaking with a significant Ghomara Berber-speaking community ;
- Sanhajas de Srayr: two Jebli-speaking tribes –Ketama and Aït Seddat– out of ten tribes, the remaining (eight) speak Sanhaja Berber ;
- Riffians: out of twenty tribes, six are fully or partially Arabophone; among them, five speak Mountain Arabic −Targuist, Aït Itteftf, Aït Boufrah, Mestasa and Metioua− while the last one –Settout– speak Hilalian Arabic ;
- Ghiatas, Maghraouas and Meknassas: the three tribes –that aren't part of any larger confederacy– are fully Jebli-speaking ;
- Tribes of Zerhoun (Zerahnas) and the neighborhood of Sefrou (Kechtala, Behalil and Yazgha): although not belonging to the same ethno-linguistic group than Jebalas, their pre-Hilalian dialects are sometimes classified as belonging to the same macro-family (westernmost pre-Hilalian village dialects) than Jebli.
Jebli is heavily influenced by Berber; the grammar of Jebli is almost Berber while most the words are Arabic. The vocabulary is highly influenced by Spanish.
Examples of Jebli
Jebli | English translation | Source language/etymology |
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trawzez | blue jeans | trowsers (English) |
assallas | darkness | asellas "darkness" (Berber) |
karretēra | car road | carretera "paved road/highway" (Spanish) |
ntina | you | (Classical Arabic) |
âyyəl, ṭfel | boy | عائلة "family" (Classical Arabic); cf. Egyptian Arabic: ˤayyel "child" |
sṭiṭu | little | (Berber) |
ħami | warm | حام "feverish" (Classical Arabic); cf. Iraqi Arabic: ħɑ̄mi "warm" |
qayla | sun | قائلة "resting" (spec. at noon time); due to the time of rest when the sun was at its highest point at noon (Classical Arabic) |
jjro | dog | jaru "puppy" (Classical Arabic) |
yəmma | mom | (Berber) |
gollark: But the work would just adjust itself...?
gollark: It autoadjusts to keep time constant, bee.
gollark: Mineflayer.
gollark: It effectively did when they quintupled the time between blocks.
gollark: The economy is kind of extremely bees due to declining block value and the lack of fractions.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jebli". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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