Language · ISO 639-3 zgh
Standard Moroccan Tamazight Language ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ
Standard Moroccan Tamazight is a language spoken by about 7.8 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin and Tifinagh scripts.
Where Standard Moroccan Tamazight is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Standard Moroccan Tamazight
Language family
No family classification is available.
Writing system
Latin and Tifinagh scripts
About the Standard Moroccan Tamazight language
Standard Moroccan Tamazight (ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ) is spoken by about 7.8 million people, which makes it the 146th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tachelhit (8.0 million) and ahead of Neapolitan (7.5 million).
Where is Standard Moroccan Tamazight spoken?
Standard Moroccan Tamazight is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Morocco (8.2 million).
Standard Moroccan Tamazight is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Standard Moroccan Tamazight is written in the Latin and Tifinagh scripts.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 zgh.
Frequently asked questions about Standard Moroccan Tamazight
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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.