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Central Atlas Tamazight or Atlasic (also known as Tazayit, variant of tashelhit, Middle Atlas Tamazight, Tmazight or Tmazikht, and, rarely, Beraber or Braber; native name: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Tamazight Berber: [tæmæˈzɪxt, θæmæˈzɪxθ], Arabic: أمازيغية أطلس الأوسط) is a Berber language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken by 3.1 million speakers.
- 4.7 million (2016)
Central Atlas Tamazight is the most widely spoken of these languages. A version of the Tifinagh alphabet, or Neo-Tifinagh, became the official script for Tamazight in 2003. was introduced into Moroccan schools in September 2003 as a way to write Tamazight. It is also used by the Tuareg, particularly the women, for private notes, love letters ...
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Central Atlas Tamazight (also referred to as just Tamazight [nb 1]) belongs to the Northern Berber branch of the Berber languages . As a member of the Afroasiatic family, Tamazight grammar has a two- gender ( tawsit [1]) system, VSO typology, emphatic consonants (realized in Tamazight as velarized ), and a templatic morphology .
Standard Moroccan Amazigh (ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵡⴰⵢⵜ; Arabic: الأمازيغية المعيارية), also known as Standard Moroccan Tamazight or Standard Moroccan Berber, is a standardized language developed by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in Morocco by combining features of Tashelhit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tarifit, the three major Amazigh ...
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 ...
Dr. Ali Alalou. Grammar of Tamazight: Central Atlas of Morocco: A Functional Approach. LINCOM: München, 2019. This reference grammar contributes to the various works on Tamazight ( tamaziɣt) or Berber linguistics. It provides an overview of the structure of Tamaziɣt language by describing its sounds (phonology), its morphology (how its words ...
May 9, 2011 · A Computerized Lexicon of Tamazight: Middle Atlas Berber. Tamazight-English. Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, Ann Arbor, MI. 393 pages plus a 60 page introduction on the grammar of the language. ISBN 0-932098-06-1. Over 10,000 entries.
