Zaian dialect

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The Zaian dialect is a variety of Central Atlas Tamazight spoken primarily by the Zaian Berber people of central Morocco.

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Label Occurrences
Zaian dialect canonical 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Berber language variety
Central Atlas Tamazight dialect
belongsTo Maghrebi Amazigh varieties
closelyRelatedTo Ayt Ndhir dialect NERFINISHED
Ayt Seghrouchen dialect NERFINISHED
country Kingdom of Morocco NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroupAssociated Zaian Berbers NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Zaian Berber NERFINISHED
Zaian Tamazight NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code tzm
hasLinguisticFeature emphatic consonants
gender distinction in nouns
rich consonant inventory
state alternation in nouns (free vs construct state)
verb–subject–object word order (VSO) (variable)
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature aspect-based verbal system
prefixal and suffixal verb inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between plain and labialized consonants
presence of uvular consonants
hasSyntacticFeature use of clitic pronouns
languageBranch Berber languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageGroup Northern Berber languages NERFINISHED
partOf Amazigh linguistic continuum NERFINISHED
regionAssociated Khenifra Province NERFINISHED
Middle Atlas NERFINISHED
scriptUsed Arabic script
Latin alphabet
Tifinagh NERFINISHED
spokenBy Zaian people NERFINISHED
spokenByMinority Moroccan population
spokenIn Morocco NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion Central Morocco NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Central Atlas Tamazight NERFINISHED
usedFor folklore and storytelling
oral communication
traditional poetry
usedIn Zaian tribal areas of the Middle Atlas

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Central Atlas Tamazight hasDialect Zaian dialect