Souss Tachelhit

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Souss Tachelhit is a major regional variety of the Tachelhit Berber language spoken primarily in Morocco’s Souss region.

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Label Occurrences
Souss Tachelhit canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Berber language variety
regional language variety
altName Souss Shilha NERFINISHED
Souss Tachelhiyt NERFINISHED
Souss Tashelhit NERFINISHED
Souss Tashelhiyt NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Central Atlas Tamazight NERFINISHED
Riffian Berber NERFINISHED
country Morocco
hasAncestor Proto-Berber NERFINISHED
hasDialect Chtouka Tachelhit NERFINISHED
Ida ou Tanane Tachelhit NERFINISHED
rural Souss Tachelhit
urban Souss Tachelhit
hasFeature emphatic consonants
gendered nouns (masculine and feminine)
rich consonant inventory
root-and-pattern morphology
state alternation (free vs annexed state)
subject–verb–object word order (SVO)
verb–subject–object word order (VSO)
influencedBy Arabic NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
Moroccan Arabic NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 shi NERFINISHED
languageBranch Berber languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageGroup Northern Berber languages NERFINISHED
partOf Amazigh cultural heritage
primaryRegion Souss region NERFINISHED
southwestern Morocco
spokenBy Ichelḥiyen NERFINISHED
Souss Berbers NERFINISHED
spokenIn Agadir NERFINISHED
Chtouka Ait Baha NERFINISHED
Taroudant NERFINISHED
Tiznit NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Shilha NERFINISHED
Tachelhit NERFINISHED
usedIn daily communication
local media
music
oral poetry
storytelling
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Tifinagh NERFINISHED

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

Tachelhit hasDialects Souss Tachelhit