Tashelhiyt

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Tashelhiyt is a variety of the Shilha Berber language spoken primarily by Amazigh communities in southwestern Morocco.

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Label Occurrences
Tashelhiyt canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Amazigh language
Berber language variety
closelyRelatedTo Central Atlas Tamazight NERFINISHED
Riffian Berber NERFINISHED
country Morocco
hasAlternativeName Shilha NERFINISHED
Tachelhit NERFINISHED
Tashelhit NERFINISHED
Tashelhiyt Shilha NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode tash1251
hasISO639-3Code shi
hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Afroasiatic NERFINISHED
Proto-Berber NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction masculine–feminine
plural formation with internal changes
root-and-pattern morphology
hasNativeSpeakers millions of speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination
emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order (SVO)
verb–subject–object word order (VSO)
languageBranch Berber NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic NERFINISHED
partOf Berber languages NERFINISHED
region North Africa
regulatedBy Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) NERFINISHED
spokenBy Amazigh communities NERFINISHED
Shilha people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Anti-Atlas mountains NERFINISHED
High Atlas mountains NERFINISHED
Morocco NERFINISHED
Souss region NERFINISHED
Southwestern Morocco NERFINISHED
Tarfaya region NERFINISHED
subclassOf Central Atlas Tamazight–Shilha continuum NERFINISHED
Shilha language NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
music
oral tradition
poetry
usedIn Amazigh education programs in Morocco
Amazigh-language media in Morocco
local radio broadcasting
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh NERFINISHED

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Tachelhit alternateName Tashelhiyt