Central Atlas Tamazight

Tamaziɣt

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Central Atlas Tamazight is a Berber language of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken by 3 to 5 million people in the Atlas mountains of Central Morocco, as well as by smaller emigrant communities in France and elsewhere. Central Atlas Tamazight is one of the most-spoken Berber languages, along with Kabyle, Shilha, Riff, and Shawiya, and in Morocco it rivals Shilha as the most-spoken. 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 Afro-Asiatic languages, Tamazight has a series of emphatic consonants, uvulars, pharyngeals, and lacks the phoneme /p/. Tamazight has a phonemic three-vowel system, but also has numerous words without vowels. Central Atlas Tamazight had no known significant writing tradition until the 20th century. It is now officially written in the Tifinagh script for instruction in Moroccan schools, while descriptive linguistic literature commonly uses the Latin alphabet, and the Arabic alphabet has also been used. The standard word order is verb–subject–object but sometimes subject–verb–object. Words inflect for gender, number, and state, using prefixes, suffixes, and circumfixes. Verbs are heavily inflected, being marked for tense, aspect, mode, voice, person of the subject, and polarity, sometimes undergoing ablaut. Pervasive borrowing from Arabic extends to all major word classes, including verbs; borrowed verbs, however, are conjugated according to native patterns, including ablaut.
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Names (more)

[ca] amazic del Marroc central
[cs] tamazight (Střední Maroko)
[da] centralmarokkansk tamazight
[el] Ταμαζίτ Κεντρικού Μαρόκο
[en] Central Atlas Tamazight
[et] Kesk-Maroko tamazighti
[fi] tamazight
[fr] tamazight
[he] טמזייט של מרכז מרוקו
[hr] marokanski tamazight
[hu] közép-marokkói tamazigt
[id] Tamazight Maroko Tengah
[it] tamazight
[ja] 中央アトラス・タマジクト語
[ko] 중앙모로코 타마지트어
[lo] ເບີເບີຣ-ໂມລະໂຄກາງ
[lv] Centrālmarokas tamazīts
[lt] Centrinio Maroko tamazightų
[mk] централно марокански тамазитски
[nl] Tamazight (Centraal-Marokko)
[nb] sentralmarokkansk tamazight
[pl] centralnomarokański tamazight
[pt] tamazight de Marrocos Central
[ro] tamazight central marocană
[ru] тамазит (Центральное Марокко)
[sk] stredomarocká berberčina
[es] tamazight del Marruecos Central
[sv] centralmarockansk tamazight
[th] เบอร์เบอร์-โมร็อกโกกลาง
[tr] Orta Atlas Tamazigt
[uk] центральномароканська тамазіт
[vi] Tiếng Tamazight Miền Trung Ma-rốc

Language type : Living

Language resources for Central Atlas Tamazight

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Wiktionary - Category:Central Atlas Tamazight language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:tamazight du Maroc central [fr]

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ISO 639-3 : tzm

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