Jebli
Jebelia
Native to	Morocco
Ethnicity	Jbalas,Ghomaras
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Pre-Hilalian Jebli
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(included inMoroccan Arabic [ary])
Glottolog	jebl1238

Jebli (Jebelia) is apre-Hilalian Arabic dialect spoken in the mountains of northwesternMorocco.^[1][2]

The historical development of this Moroccan dialect is unclear.

The wordjebli means "of/from the mountain". It is mainly spoken in the westernRif by tribes ofSherifian,Berber andMorisco descent over the past ten centuries.

• Jbalas: all its 44 tribes speak Jebli Arabic;
• Ghomaras: out of nine tribes, seven are fully Jebli-speaking, the two remaining are partially Jebli-speaking, with a significantGhomara Berber-speaking community;
• Sanhajas de Srayr: three arabophone tribes – Targuist, Aït Bouchibet, Aït Gmil^[3] – while Ketama is both Berberophone and Arabophone. Therefore, out of twelve tribes, the remaining (eight) speakSanhaja Berber^[4][5];
• Riffians: out of twenty tribes, six are fully or partially Arabophone; among them, four speak Mountain Arabic − Aït Itteftf, Aït Boufrah, Mestasa and Metioua − while the last one (Settout) speak Hilalian Arabic;
• Tribes ofZerhoun (Zerahnas) and the neighborhood ofSefrou (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) as Jebli.

Jebli is influenced byBerber; most of the words are Arabic but the vocabulary is highly influenced by Spanish.

• Varieties of Arabic
• Pre-Hilalian Arabic dialects
• Maghrebi Arabic
• Jijel Arabic

• Languages of Morocco
• Maghrebi Arabic
• Moroccan Arabic

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