Shilha people

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The Shilha people are an Amazigh (Berber) ethnic group indigenous to southwestern Morocco, particularly the Sous region and the High Atlas mountains.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Shilha people canonical 6
Zenata people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh people
Berber people
ethnic group
associatedWith Atlas Mountains
Sous plain
celebrates Yennayer
continent Africa
country Morocco
culturalRegion Tamazgha
culture Amazigh culture
ethnicGroupIn Morocco
ethnographicRegion North Africa
surface form: Maghreb
ethnonym Shilha
hasSubgroup rural Shilha communities
urban Shilha communities
historicalLanguageContact Arabic
French
indigenousTo High Atlas
surface form: High Atlas mountains

Sous region
southwestern Morocco
language Tachelhit
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
Berber languages
locatedInTimeZone UTC+1
nativeName Ichelḥiyen
surface form: Išəlḥiyn
nativeNameLanguage Tachelhit
partOf Amazigh
surface form: Amazigh population of North Africa
region Anti-Atlas
Draa Valley
High Atlas
Sous-Massa
relatedEthnicGroup Kabyle
surface form: Kabyle people

Berbers
surface form: Riffian people

Tuareg
surface form: Tuareg people
religion Islam
Sunni Islam
traditionalCraft carpet making
silver jewelry
weaving
traditionalHousing earthen architecture
mountain villages
traditionalMusic Ahwach
Rways
traditionalOccupation agriculture
pastoralism
usesCalendar Amazigh calendar
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shilha spokenBy Shilha people
Zenati languages namedAfter Shilha people
this entity surface form: Zenata people
Tashelhit isSpokenBy Shilha people
Amazigh hasSubgroup Shilha people
Irifiyen relatedGroup Shilha people
Taslḥit ethnicGroup Shilha people
Tachelhit ethnicGroup Shilha people