Tachelhit

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Tachelhit is a Berber (Amazigh) language spoken primarily in southwestern Morocco, especially in the Souss region and the High Atlas mountains.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tachelhit canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh language
Berber language
natural language
alternateName Shilha
Taznatit
surface form: Tachelhiyt

Tashelhit
Tashelhiyt
closelyRelatedTo Central Atlas Tamazight
Riffian Berber
country Morocco
endangermentStatus vigorous (not currently endangered)
ethnicGroup Ichelḥiyen
Shilha people
glottocode tacl1239
hasDialects High Atlas
surface form: High Atlas Tachelhit

Tashelhit
surface form: Marrakesh Tachelhit

Souss Tachelhit
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive pharyngeal consonants
emphatic consonants
rich consonant inventory
ISO639-2 shy
ISO639-3 shi
languageBranch Berber languages
languageCode shi
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
macrolanguageOf no
morphologyType Afroasiatic-type root-and-pattern morphology
numberOfSpeakers millions of speakers
officialStatus recognized regional language in Morocco
primaryWordOrder VOS
VSO
region North Africa
spokenIn Anti-Atlas mountains
Drâa-Tafilalet
surface form: Drâa-Tafilalet region

High Atlas
surface form: High Atlas mountains

Marrakesh-Safi region
surface form: Marrakesh region

Morocco
Guelmim-Oued Noun region
surface form: Souss region

Souss-Massa
surface form: Souss-Massa region

Southwestern Morocco
surface form: southwestern Morocco
subgroupOf Northern Berber
surface form: Northern Berber languages
usedByInstitution Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture
surface form: Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM)
usedIn local media in Morocco
oral poetry
traditional music
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh
surface form: Tifinagh script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Tashelhit hasAlternativeName Tachelhit
Shilha people language Tachelhit
Tamasheq closelyRelatedTo Tachelhit
Taslḥit alternateName Tachelhit