Central Atlas Tamazight
| Central Atlas Tamazight | |
|---|---|
| Tamaziġt | |
| ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ | |
| Native to |  Morocco |
| Region | Central Morocco – Middle Atlas |
Native speakers | (3 million cited 1998)[1] 2.6 million (In Morocco only - 2004 census)[2] |
Afroasiatic
| |
| Tifinagh, Latin, Arabic | |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | IRCAM |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tzm |
 Location of Central Atlas Tamazight speakers Central Atlas Tamazight speakers are mostly distributed in a large, contiguous area in central Morocco. | |
Central Atlas Tamazight, also known as Central Morocco Tamazight [3] is a Berber language. It is of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It is spoken by 3 to 5 million people in Central Morocco, and by smaller communities in France and elsewhere. It is an official language of Morocco.
Central Atlas Tamazight is one of the four most-spoken Berber languages. The other ones are Kabyle, Shilha, and Riff.
References
- ↑ "Tamazight, Central Atlas". SIL International. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ↑ "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat 2004". Hcp.ma. Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
- ↑ also known as Central Morocco Tamazight, Middle Atlas Tamazight, Tamazight, Central Shilha, and, rarely, Braber