Pour la démarche géolinguistique de la standardisation des variétés Amazighes du Rif

• Main Author: M. Lafkioui
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Gents Afrika Platform, Afrika Brug 2008-01-01
• Series: Afrika Focus
• Subjects: Tarifit (Amazigh Language of the Rif North Morocco); Geolinguistics; Dialectology; Computational-Dialectometry; Language Planning
• Online Access: http://www.gap.ugent.be/africafocus/pdf/08Lafkioui_Fullpaper.pdf

This article presents a proposition to standardise the Amazigh (Berber) varieties of the Rif (Northern Morocco) on the basis of my geolinguistic study "Atlas linguistique des variétés berbères du Rif" which provides the data necessary to construct a representative linguistic koinè for the Rif region through computational dialectometry analyses. Dialectometry is a quantitative method to calculate distances between linguistic varieties and to group the latter following different parameters.