Tashelhit

E49027
Afroasiatic language Amazigh language Berber language natural language

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

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
South Moroccan Berber 1
Tashelhit Amazighs 1
Tashelhit Berber 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language ⓘ
Amazigh language ⓘ
Berber language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Shilha ⓘ
Tachelhit ⓘ
Siwi ⓘ
surface form: Tashelhiyt

Taslḥit ⓘ
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers millions of speakers ⓘ
hasEndonym Taslḥit ⓘ
surface form: Tašlḥit

Taslḥit ⓘ
surface form: Tašlḥiyt
hasGlottocode tash1251 ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code shi ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic ⓘ
French ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns ⓘ
rich verbal inflection ⓘ
state alternation (free vs construct state) ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType fusional ⓘ
hasNativeName ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵜ ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses) ⓘ
emphatic consonants ⓘ
hasWordOrder SVO ⓘ
VSO ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Arabic alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Arabic script

Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh ⓘ
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Central Atlas Tamazight ⓘ
Tarifit ⓘ
isOfficialStatusIn Morocco (as part of Amazigh) ⓘ
isRecognizedAs regional language in Morocco ⓘ
isSpokenBy Ichelḥiyen ⓘ
Shilha people ⓘ
Tashelhit self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Tashelhit Amazighs
isTaughtIn Amazigh language education programs in Morocco ⓘ
languageBranch Berbers ⓘ
surface form: Berber
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
surface form: Afroasiatic
partOf Berber languages ⓘ
surface form: Amazigh language family
spokenIn Morocco ⓘ
spokenInCountry Morocco ⓘ
spokenInRegion Anti-Atlas ⓘ
Atlas Mountains ⓘ
surface form: High Atlas

Marrakesh-Safi region ⓘ
surface form: Marrakesh region

Souss-Massa ⓘ
surface form: Souss

southern Morocco ⓘ
surface form: Tarfaya region
spokenPrimarilyIn southwestern Morocco ⓘ
subfamilyOf Berber languages ⓘ
usedIn local media in Morocco ⓘ
music ⓘ
oral poetry ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

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

Shilha → alternateName → Tashelhit ⓘ
this entity surface form: South Moroccan Berber
Tashelhit → isSpokenBy → Tashelhit self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tashelhit Amazighs
Anti-Atlas → language → Tashelhit ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tashelhit Berber
Berbers → speaks → Tashelhit ⓘ