Learn Tarifit,
step by step.
A course for anyone who wants to speak the Berber language of their family — built on the academic work of Mourigh & Kossmann, translated into accessible English.
Three entry points, one language.
Learn in sequence, dig deeper where you get stuck, or go straight to the academic source. All three are linked together — pick the entry point that matches where you are.
The course
Step by step — from pronunciation to subordinate clauses. Each lesson has a clear goal and verified examples.
Start lesson 01The grammar
The full grammar from the book, translated and explained in plain language. For anyone who wants to dig deeper.
To the grammarThe book
The complete original work of Mourigh & Kossmann (2019). The academic source behind everything on this site.
Open the bookTarifit (native name: tmazixt) is the Berber language of the Rif mountains, spoken by about 1.3 million people in Morocco and large communities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Spain.
The site works in three layers: learning, understanding, checking. Missing a word? Use Suggest a word in the menu.
The course
For learning. Short, focused, in the right order.
The grammar
For understanding. The full grammar by topic, translated from the book.
The book
For checking. The academic source everything comes from.
The Latin-Berber alphabet.
We use the writing system from learntarifit. Below are the letters that sound different than you might expect — sounds the Latin alphabet doesn't offer out of the box.