Central Atlas Tamazight
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Amazigh language of the Afro-Asiatic language family
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ tæmæˈzɪxt, θæmæˈzɪxθ ]
- Native to
- Morocco
- Region
- Fès-Meknès , Béni Mellal-Khénifra and Drâa-Tafilalet
- Native speakers
- 2.7 million (2024)
- Language family
- Afroasiatic Berber Northern Atlas Central Atlas Tamazight
- Standard forms
- Standard Moroccan Amazigh
- Writing system
- Tifinagh , Arabic
- Regulated by
- IRCAM
- Iso 639 3
- tzm
- Glottolog
- cent2194
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- Morocco
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- native label
- ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 17000000
- writing system
- Arabic alphabet
- linguistic typology
- verb–subject–object
- Wikimedia language code
- tzm
- topic's main category
- Category:Central Atlas Tamazight
- indigenous to
- Morocco
- Commons category
- Central Atlas Tamazight
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tzm
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Encyclopedic overview
Central Atlas Tamazight or Atlasic (native name: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ, Tamaziɣt [tæmæˈzɪxt, θæmæˈzɪxθ]; Arabic: أمازيغية أطلس الأوسط) is a Berber language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken by around 2.7 million speakers, or 7.4% of the population of Morocco.
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 Afroasiatic languages, Tamazight has a series of "emphatic consonants" (realized as pharyngealized), uvulars, pharyngeals and lacks the phoneme /p/. Tamazight has a phonemic three-vowel system but also has numerous words without vowels.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Central Atlas Tamazight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.