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In the north and to the south, Shilha borders Arabic -speaking areas. In the northeast, roughly along the line Demnate - Zagora, there is a dialect continuum with Central Atlas Tamazight. Within the Shilha-speaking area, there are several Arabic-speaking enclaves, notably the town of Taroudant and its surroundings.
Also known as. English. Central Atlas Tamazight. Berber language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Tamazight. tzm. Atlasic.
Central Atlas Tamazight or Atlasic is a Berber language Central Atlas Tamazight is one of the most-spoken Berber languages, along with Tachelhit, Kabyle, Riffian, Shawiya and Tuareg. In Morocco, it comes second as the most-spoken after Tachelhit. All five languages may be referred to as "Tamazight", but Central Atlas speakers are the only ones who use the term exclusively. As is typical of ...
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Central Atlas Tamazight (also known as Central Morocco Tamazight, Middle Atlas Tamazight, Tamazight, Central Shilha and, rarely, Beraber or Braber; native name: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Tamazight [tæmæˈzɪɣt], [θæmæˈzɪɣθ]) is a Berber language spoken natively by about 2.5 million people, mostly around the central Atlas mountains in Morocco, though also by emigrant communities ...
The Atlas languages are a subgroup of the Northern Berber languages of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. By mutual intelligibility, they are a single language spoken by perhaps 14 million people; however, they are distinct sociolinguistically and are considered separate languages by the Royal institute ...
Another confound is that many sources treat all Berber dialects as a single language, making it difficult to figure out whether "Tamazight" writing and "Tamazight" in France and Algeria are really the Tamazight we are interested in.
