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Atlas languages

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The Atlas languages are a subgroup of the Northern Berber languages of the Afroasiatic language family, spoken in the Atlas Mountains and Rif Mountains of Morocco. By mutual intelligibility they are effectively a single language spoken by perhaps 14 million people, though they are distinct sociolinguistically and considered separate languages by the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, including Central Atlas Tamazight, spoken in the central Atlas Mountains, and Shilha, spoken in southern Morocco.

Facts
Region
Atlas Mountains and Rif Mountains of Morocco 1
Speaker Count
14,000,000 1
Sources
1. Atlas languages - Wikipedia
  • Lead section, location clause
    spoken in the Atlas Mountains and Rif Mountains of Morocco
  • Lead section, speaker clause
    spoken by perhaps 14 million people
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