Shilha

E31598

Shilha is a major Berber (Amazigh) language of southwestern Morocco, spoken primarily by the Shilha people in the Atlas and Anti-Atlas regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Shilha canonical 9

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amazigh language
Berber language
natural language
alternateName Shilha Berber
linked to: Zenati Berber

Tachelhit
linked to: Chenoua

Tashelhit
closelyRelatedTo Central Atlas Tamazight
Riffian Berber
countryOfficialRecognition Morocco
hasAlternativeClassification South Moroccan Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
hasApproximateSpeakers millions of speakers
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasGlottocode tash1251
hasISO639-2Code ber
hasISO639-3Code shi
hasLinguisticFeature rich consonant inventory
root-and-pattern morphology
verb–subject–object basic word order (VSO)
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
French
hasMajorDialect Anti-Atlas dialects
High Atlas dialects
Souss dialect
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
state alternation (free vs annexed state)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive gemination
emphatic consonants
hasStatusInMorocco official Amazigh language (as part of Tamazight)
isEndangeredStatus vigorous but under pressure from Arabic
languageBranch Northern Berber
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageSubfamily Berber languages
spokenBy Amazigh people
linked to: Berbers

Shilha people
spokenInCountry Morocco
spokenInRegion Anti-Atlas
High Atlas
linked to: Atlas Mountains

Souss Valley
linked to: Souss-Massa

southwestern Morocco
usedByReligion Islamic religious contexts in local communities
usedInDomain education (Amazigh language programs in Morocco)
local media
music
oral poetry
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
Tifinagh

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