ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Africa · ISO 639-3 shi · Glottocode tach1250

Tachelhit

Tachelhit represents an Afro-Asiatic language with a Tifinagh assignment and a source range covering Morocco and Algeria.

Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Likely script
Tifinagh (Tfng)
Source status
not endangered
Macroarea
Africa
Source country codes
DZ · MA
Reference point
29.785, -7.779

Open research question

What coexistence of Tifinagh, Latin and Arabic writing is documented for different contexts?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.