Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 tzm
Central Atlas Tamazight Language Tamaziɣt
Central Atlas Tamazight is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 17 million people in 1 country. It is an official language of Morocco. It is written in the Tifinagh and Latin scripts.
Where Central Atlas Tamazight is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Central Atlas Tamazight language
Central Atlas Tamazight (Tamaziɣt) is spoken by about 17 million people, which makes it the 77th most spoken language in the world — just behind Northeastern Thai (17 million) and ahead of Rangpuri (17 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Atlas Berber group within the Kabyle-Atlas Berber branch.
Where is Central Atlas Tamazight spoken?
Central Atlas Tamazight is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Morocco (3.7 million).
Central Atlas Tamazight is an official language in 1 country: Morocco.
Writing system and status
Central Atlas Tamazight is written in the Tifinagh and Latin scripts. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Tachelhit and Kabyle.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 tzm.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.