According to ethnologues, the Rif languages are a genetic subgroup of the Zenati languages including two languages and dialects spoken in the Rif area of Morocco. Other sources regard Senhaja de Srair as non-Zenati, and thus see "Rif languages" as an areal rather than genetic grouping: Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with native language biblical texts. ... The Zenati languages include 12 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken in Africa and western Asia; this language group is a part of the Northern Berber language family. ... This is about a region in Morocco: RIF is also an acronym/initialism. ...
The language of the Senhaja de Srair is a Northern Berber language spoken in the southern part of the Moroccan Rif. ... Rifi redirects here, for the place that is called Rifi in Greece, see Rifi, Greece Tarifit is a Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken mainly in the Moroccan Rif by about 2 million people. ...
This group of different languages, but married by their ownership common to the ethnos amazigh, it has come to be generically, in growing consent, denominated as the language of the Middle Atlas, the tamazight, as general term that includes to all the other ones.
The language Tarifit is the language Amazigh that at the moment survives in the north of the current State of Morocco.
The imazighen of the Rif, the same as the rest of the Imazighen, once decided in the period but recent of their History to reactivate their Culture, they face with the problem of adopting an alphabet with the one that to capture in a written way and literary their own language.
RIF was used to pay part of the salary of another graduate student who made the biggest breakthrough our lab has ever made -- the identification of new genes for cisplatin resistance.
RIF Dollars that come back to individual faculty members are an invaluable resource to the investigator because they provide un-earmarked funds that can be used in a variety of ways to forward new (or even stalled) projects.
PI RIF is used primarily for small instrument and software purchases not covered by grant budgets, salary for RAs, and travel expenses for graduate students to present their research at national and international meetings.
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