Jebli Arabic

Jebli
جبلية
Native toMorocco
EthnicityJebala people, Ghomaras
Language codes
ISO 639-3(included in Moroccan Arabic [ary])
Glottologjebl1238

Jebli (Arabic: جبلية, romanized: Jebeliyyah; lit. 'of/from the mountain') is a pre-Hilalian Arabic dialect spoken in the mountains of northwestern Morocco.[1][2]

It is mainly spoken in the western Rif by tribes of Sherifian, Berber and Morisco descent, including by the Jebala people and eight Ghomara tribes, seven out of whom are fully Jebli-speaking. Three of the twelve Senhaja Srair tribes (Targuist, Aït Bouchibet and Aït Gmil)[3] and four out of twenty Riffian tribes also speak Jebli Arabic. Although not belonging to the same ethnolinguistic group, the pre-Hilalian dialects spoken by the tribes of Zerhoun (Zerahnas) and Sefrou (Kechtala, Behalil and Yazgha) are sometimes classified as belonging to the same macro-family (westernmost pre-Hilalian village dialects) as Jebli.

The dialect developed out of the Arabisation of Berber tribes in the region during the 10th century AD.[4] Jebli vocabulary and grammar is influenced by Berber;[4] most of the words are Arabic but the vocabulary is highly influenced by Spanish.

Vocabulary examples

Jebli English translation Source language/etymology
trawzez blue jeans trousers (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" Or i3eyallen iyyalen in (Berber)
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)

See also

References

  1. ^ Fernández, Montserrat Benítez; Guerrero, Jairo (1 November 2022). "The Jebli speech between the media and the city: exploring linguistic stereotypes on a rural accent in Northern Morocco". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2022 (278): 181–202. doi:10.1515/ijsl-2022-0015. hdl:10261/288467. ISSN 1613-3668.
  2. ^ Laaboudi, Daouia (1 August 2021). "Discourse Marking Variation in Moroccan Arabic: Requests as a Case Study". International Journal of Arabic Linguistics. 7 (2): 109–122. ISSN 2421-9835.
  3. ^ Les Tribus Du Rif. p. 19.
  4. ^ a b Lévy, Simon (1996). "Repères pour une histoire linguistique du Maroc" (PDF). EDNA (in French). 1: 127–137. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
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