Tashelhit
Sign in to saveBerber language of southwestern Morocco
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- / ˈ t æ ʃ ə l h ɪ t /
- Native to
- Morocco
- Region
- Souss-Massa , Guelmim-Oued Noun , Drâa-Tafilalet , Marrakesh-Safi , Béni Mellal-Khénifra , Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab
- Ethnicity
- Shilha , Berber Jews
- Native speakers
- 5.2 million (2024)
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Atlas Shilha
- Dialects
- Judeo-Berber
- Writing system
- Arabic , Latin , Tifinagh
- Iso 639 3
- shi
- Glottolog
- tach1250
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Young man speaking Tachelhit, recorded in Cuba. Tashelhiyt or Tachelhit (/ˈtæʃəlhɪt/ TASH-əl-hit; from the endonym Taclḥiyt, IPA: [tæʃlħijt]), also known as Shilha (/ˈʃɪlhə/ SHIL-hə; from its name in Moroccan Arabic, Šəlḥa) is a Berber language spoken in southern Morocco by the Shilha people. When referring to the language, anthropologists and historians prefer the name Shilha, which is in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Linguists writing in English prefer Tashelhit (or a variant spelling). In French sources the language is called tachelhit, chelha or chleuh.