Tashelhiyt

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

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Shilha (Tashelhit) 1
Tashelhiyt canonical 1
Tashelhiyt Shilha 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Amazigh language
Berber language variety
closelyRelatedTo Central Atlas Tamazight
Riffian Berber
country Morocco
hasAlternativeName Shilha
Tachelhit
Tashelhit
Tashelhiyt Shilha
linked to: Tashelhiyt
hasGlottocode tash1251
hasISO639-3Code shi
hasLinguisticAncestor Proto-Afroasiatic
Proto-Berber
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
languageFamily Afroasiatic
partOf Berber languages
region North Africa
regulatedBy Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM)
spokenBy Amazigh communities
linked to: Amazigh

Shilha people
spokenIn Anti-Atlas mountains
High Atlas mountains
linked to: High Atlas

Morocco
Souss region
Southwestern Morocco
Tarfaya region
linked to: Tarfaya Province
subclassOf Central Atlas Tamazight–Shilha continuum
Shilha language
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 script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Tifinagh

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Tachelhit alternateName Tashelhiyt
Atlas Berber closelyRelatedTo Shilha (Tashelhit)
linked to: Tashelhiyt
Tashelhiyt hasAlternativeName Tashelhiyt Shilha
linked to: Tashelhiyt