Ayt Ndhir dialect

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The Ayt Ndhir dialect is a regional variety of Central Atlas Tamazight spoken by the Ayt Ndhir Amazigh community in Morocco.

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Label Occurrences
Ayt Ndhir dialect canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Berber language variety
Central Atlas Tamazight dialect
belongsTo Amazigh cultural heritage
closelyRelatedTo Ayt Mguild dialect
Ayt Seghrouchen dialect
country Morocco
countryOfficialLanguageContext spoken alongside Arabic in Morocco
culturalAssociation Ayt Ndhir tribal confederation
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Ayt Ndhir
geographicDistribution Ayt Ndhir tribal areas in the Middle Atlas
hasAlternativeName Ayt Ndhir Tamazight
linked to: Ayt Ndhir Amazigh

Aït Ndhir dialect
hasAncestor Old Berber
linked to: Proto-Berber

Proto-Berber language
linked to: Proto-Berber
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction masculine feminine
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
tri-consonantal roots
hasSyntacticFeature VSO word order tendency
use of clitic pronouns
languageBranch Northern Berber
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
macroLanguage Tamazight
partOf Central Atlas Tamazight
region Central Atlas
spokenBy Ayt Ndhir Amazigh
Ayt Ndhir community
spokenIn Middle Atlas region
linked to: Middle Atlas

Morocco
status minority language variety
subFamily Amazigh languages
Berber languages
usedBy local rural communities
usedFor oral communication
usedIn daily conversation
folklore
traditional oral poetry
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (3)

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

Central Atlas Tamazight hasDialect Ayt Ndhir dialect
Zaian dialect closelyRelatedTo Ayt Ndhir dialect
Ayt Sokhman dialect relatedTo Ayt Ndhir dialect