Ayt Oumalou dialect

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

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Ayt Oumalou dialect canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Berber language variety
regional dialect
country Kingdom of Morocco
endangeredStatus minority language
hasAncestor Old Berber
linked to: Proto-Berber

Proto-Berber language
linked to: Proto-Berber
hasEthnicGroup Ayt Oumalou tribe
Imazighen
linked to: Amazigh
hasMorphologicalFeature gender and number agreement
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order (SVO) (variable)
verb–subject–object word order (VSO) (variable)
isOralTraditionDominant true
isStandardized false
languageBranch Berber languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
lexicalSimilarityWith other Central Atlas Tamazight dialects
partOf Central Atlas Tamazight
region Central Atlas
relatedTo Ayt Ndhir dialect
Ayt Seghrouchen dialect
Standard Central Atlas Tamazight
spokenBy Ayt Oumalou Amazigh people
Ayt Oumalou community
spokenIn Atlas Mountains region
linked to: Atlas Mountains

Morocco
subgroupOf Central Atlas Tamazight dialect continuum
usedFor local cultural expression
oral communication
songs and poetry
traditional storytelling
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Tifinagh

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Central Atlas Tamazight hasDialect Ayt Oumalou dialect