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Tachelhit - Tasusit
Taclḥit - ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵜ - تشلحيت
Native to Morocco; immigrant communities in France, Belgium, Canada and elsewhere
Region Anti-Atlas, Souss, Draa, Ihahan, western part of High Atlas
Ethnicity Iclḥiyn - Isusiyn
Native speakers 7 to 8 millions worldwide.  (date missing)
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
  • Berber
    • Northern Berber
      • Tachelhit - Tasusit
Writing system Berber Latin alphabet, Berber Arabic alphabet, Tifinagh
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Tachelhit-speaking areas
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Tachelhit is a Berber language (Tachelhit: Taclḥit - ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵜ - تشلحيت) spoken by the Shilha people. There are 7,823,000 speakers worldwide, the majority in Morocco, where there are more 7,000,000 speakers.

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  • Percent of Tashlhit speakers in Morocco by census 2004

    Percentage of Shilha speakers per region according to 2004 census

  • Muhammad Awzal
    Shilha written in Arabic script: an 18th-century manuscript of al-Ḥawḍ by Mḥmmd Awzal.
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