Tashelhit

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Tashelhit is a variety of the Amazigh (Berber) language family spoken primarily in southwestern Morocco.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Tashelhit canonical 11
Tashelhit Berber 8
Marrakesh Tachelhit 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Amazigh language
Berber language
natural language
hasAlternativeName Shilha
Tachelhit
Tashelhiyt
linked to: Siwi

Taslḥit
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers millions of speakers
hasEndonym Tašlḥit
linked to: Taslḥit

Tašlḥiyt
linked to: Taslḥit
hasGlottocode tash1251
hasISO639-3Code shi
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
French
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction in nouns
rich verbal inflection
state alternation (free vs construct state)
hasMorphologicalType fusional
hasNativeName ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵜ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
emphatic consonants
hasWordOrder SVO
VSO
hasWritingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Tifinagh
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Central Atlas Tamazight
Tarifit
isOfficialStatusIn Morocco (as part of Amazigh)
isRecognizedAs regional language in Morocco
isSpokenBy Ichelḥiyen
Shilha people
Tashelhit Amazighs
linked to: Tashelhit
isTaughtIn Amazigh language education programs in Morocco
languageBranch Berber
linked to: Berbers
languageFamily Afroasiatic
partOf Amazigh language family
linked to: Berber languages
spokenIn Morocco
spokenInCountry Morocco
spokenInRegion Anti-Atlas
High Atlas
linked to: Atlas Mountains

Marrakesh region
Souss
linked to: Souss-Massa

Tarfaya region
linked to: southern Morocco
spokenPrimarilyIn southwestern Morocco
subfamilyOf Berber languages
usedIn local media in Morocco
music
oral poetry

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (23)

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

Berbers speaks Tashelhit
Anti-Atlas language Tashelhit Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
Shilha alternateName Tashelhit
Shilha hasAlternativeClassification South Moroccan Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
Tashelhit isSpokenBy Tashelhit Amazighs
linked to: Tashelhit
Aït Mansour Gorge languageRegion Tashelhit Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
Southern Morocco hasLanguage Tashelhit Berber
subject linked to: southern Morocco
linked to: Tashelhit
Souss-Massa languageUsed Tashelhit Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
Tafraoute languageUsed Tashelhit Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
Sirwa Massif languageSpoken Tashelhit Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
Tfng writingSystemFor Tashelhit
Northern Berber hasMajorVariety Tashelhit
Tamazight closelyRelatedTo Tashelhit
Ghomara language isLesserKnownComparedTo Tashelhit language
linked to: Tashelhit
Amazigh hasLanguage Tashelhit
Taghazout languageSpoken Tashelhit Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
Inezgane languageUsed Tashelhit Berber
linked to: Tashelhit
Taslḥit alternateName Tashelhit
Ichelḥiyen languageSpoken Tashelhit
Morocco recognizedLanguage Tashelhit
subject linked to: Morocco (as part of Amazigh)
Tachelhit alternateName Tashelhit
Tachelhit hasDialects Marrakesh Tachelhit
linked to: Tashelhit