Explore: Tashelhit Language

(OED). Linguists writing in English prefer Tashelhit (or a variant spelling). In French sources the language is called tachelhit, chelha or chleuh. Shilha

is a standardized language developed by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Morocco by combining features of Tashelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight

besides referring to all Berber languages or to Standard Moroccan Tamazight, "Tamazight" is often used in contrast to Tashelhit and Tarifit to refer to Central

north of the country and is one of the three main Berber languages of Morocco. The Tashelhit language is considered to be the most widely spoken as it covers

the Masmuda confederacy largely corresponds to the speakers of the Tashelhit language. The Masmuda are related to the Schleuh people and are also considered

Berber language is fairly recent. The six major Berber language/dialects are spoken by 90% of the total Berber-speaking population: Tashelhit Berber,

Like other Berber languages, Riffian has been written with several different systems over the years. Unlike the nearby Tashelhit (Shilha), Riffian Berber

is an 18th-century composer of poems in the Tashelhit language of southwestern Morocco. In the Tashelhit Berber oral tradition, he is also known as Bab

poet, musician and songwriter Mririda n'Ait Attik (c. 1900–c. 1930), Tashelhit-language poet Lotfi Akalay, writer and businessman Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami

Shona-derived dialect and similar Tsonga language Nigeria: Yoruba Morocco: Central Atlas Tamazight, Tashelhit South Africa: Southern Bantu Spain (La Gomera