Tachelhit - Definition and Overview

Tachelhit is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Berber subgroup; it is spoken in Morocco and Algeria. Its SIL code is SHI. There are about 3.5 million speakers.

User Breakdown

Morocco: approx. 3,000,000
Algeria: approx. 500,000

Dialect

• Susiua or Sus or Sousse

See also: language, Africa

External link

• Ethnologue Report for Tachelhit (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SHI)
• Epenthetic vowels in Tashlhiyt Berber (http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/TPS.html)