Breathing Life into Vowelless Words: How Tarifit Rewrites the Rules of Sound by Alane Lim October 01, 2025 Self & Society Out of all the words you know, which ones don’t have vowels? To document these rare “vowelless” words and show how they might develop in real time, Mohamed Afkir and Georgia Zellou studied Tarifit, a Moroccan Amazigh language.