Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 shi
Tachelhit Language Taclḥiyt
Tachelhit is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 8.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh scripts.
Where Tachelhit is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Tachelhit
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Berber
- Kabyle-Atlas Berber
- Atlas Berber
- Tachelhit
Writing system
Perso-Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh scripts
Related languages
About the Tachelhit language
Tachelhit (Taclḥiyt) is spoken by about 8.0 million people, which makes it the 145th most spoken language in the world — just behind Minangkabau (8.0 million) and ahead of Standard Moroccan Tamazight (7.8 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 Tachelhit spoken?
Tachelhit is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Morocco (3.3 million).
Tachelhit is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Tachelhit is written in the Perso-Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Central Atlas Tamazight and Kabyle.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 shi.
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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.