Today i'm going to introduce you to the land of my forefathers Morroco it's people and it's customs from the isolated amazighs tribes of the rif to the sahrawis in the desert .
Morroco contrary to what is believed about it isn't an arab country but an amazighs country which is inhabited by the descendent of the indeginous tribes that lived in Northern Africa since antiquity that still speak there local Amazigh language or got arabised gradually trough the rural exodus that occured in the 1950s and the standardisation of arabic in the public schooling systems after the 1956 independence .
They are divided into tree main groups
The rifis who are inhabiting the northern parts of Morroco are part of the zyanid tribes who ruled over the central maghreb region from 1235 to 1556 their customs have been influenced by the different waves of andalucian refugees who arrived after the downfall of the kingdom of Granada to the final expulsions of the moors 1609. They language is a variant of the amazight called tarrifit it varries from the tachelhit and is closer to takbailit in northern algeria but are mutually intelligible .


The chleuh are located between the region of souss and the atlas . The chleuh people are composed of the sanhaja tribe who are a famous tribe that instored the state of the almoravids extending from tombouktou located in the actual mali to the region of andalucia from the 11th to the 12 th century after the downfall of the empire they got scatered in sub divised tribes in the Atlas mainly and in the region of Souss Like the Ketama and the Ait Atta .They were culturally isolated for centuries and centuries their clothing and language stayed the same has they were a millenia ago .Their language is the tachelhit it is the most widely spoken amazigh language in the world .

The Sahrawi people are located from the city of goulmime to the city of al gwira their main background is amazighs from the tribe of Sanhaja but they gradually got arabised when they got in contact with the Banu Hassan tribes in the 17th century however they customs remained heavily influenced with the amazigh culture. The Sahrawi society was very caste like with the different social class like the tribes the sheiks the marabouts the slaves etc... however after the independance from the spanish colonialism in 1975 several laws were enabled to fight these harsh social rules and free the slaves and permit to the most discriminated classes to access to job opportunity housing etc...
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