Taslḥit

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Taslḥit is a variety of the Amazigh (Berber) language spoken primarily in southwestern Morocco.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Taslḥit canonical 1
Tašlḥit 1
Tašlḥiyt 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh language variety
Berber language
natural language
alternateName Shilha
Tachelhit
Tashelhit
closelyRelatedTo Central Atlas Tamazight
Tarifit
country Morocco
ethnicGroup Ichelḥiyen
Shilha people
glottocode tacl1239
hasDialect Anti-Atlas dialects
High Atlas dialects
Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Marrakesh dialect

Souss dialect
hasStandardizationBody Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture
hasWordOrder VOS
VSO
hasWritingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh
iso639-3 shi
languageBranch Berber languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageOf Anti-Atlas mountains
High Atlas
surface form: High Atlas mountains

Souss-Massa
surface form: Souss valley
morphologicalType Afroasiatic root-and-pattern morphology
officialStatus recognized regional language in Morocco
partOf Amazigh languages of Morocco
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
emphatic consonants
primaryRegion southwestern Morocco
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Anti-Atlas
Drâa-Tafilalet
surface form: Drâa-Tafilalet region

High Atlas
Marrakesh-Safi region
surface form: Marrakesh region

Moroccan diaspora
Souss-Massa
surface form: Souss-Massa region
subgroupOf Atlas Berber
usedAlongside French
Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Moroccan Arabic

Modern Standard Arabic
surface form: Standard Arabic
usedFor daily communication
music
oral literature
poetry
writingStandard Tifinagh
surface form: IRCAM Tifinagh orthography

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Tashelhit hasAlternativeName Taslḥit
Tashelhit hasEndonym Taslḥit
this entity surface form: Tašlḥiyt
Tashelhit hasEndonym Taslḥit
this entity surface form: Tašlḥit