Tashlhiyt

WALS coordinates: 31° N, 5° W

spoken in Morocco

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Shilha
Routledge:
  • Tashelhait
Other:
  • Tashelhit Berber,
  • Shilha,
  • Tachelhait,
  • Shilha/Tashlhiyt
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
comment
3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio High Phonology
comment
4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives Phonology
comment
5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /p/ Phonology
comment
6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
comment
7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
comment
8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
comment
9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
comment
11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
comment
12A Syllable Structure Complex Phonology
comment
13A Tone No tones Phonology
comment
14A Fixed Stress Locations Ultimate Phonology
comment
15A Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity) Phonology
comment
16A Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight Phonology
comment
17A Rhythm Types No rhythmic stress Phonology
comment
18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
comment
19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants Pharyngeals Phonology
comment
26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly prefixing Morphology
comment
33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Mixed morphological plural Nominal Categories
comment
37A Definite Articles No definite, but indefinite article Nominal Categories
comment
38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite affix Nominal Categories
comment
41A Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives Three-way contrast Nominal Categories
comment
examples
42A Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives Different stem Nominal Categories
comment
examples
47A Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns Identical Nominal Categories
comment
51A Position of Case Affixes Case prefixes Nominal Categories
comment
52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation Nominal Categories
comment
examples
57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
comment
69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes Verbal Categories
comment
70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
comment
71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
comment
81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
comment
82A Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order Word Order
comment
83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
comment
86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
comment
88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative suffix Word Order
comment
93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
comment
94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed Word Order
comment
111A Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions Morphological but no compound Simple Clauses
comment
112A Negative Morphemes Variation between negative word and affix Simple Clauses
comment
116A Polar Questions Mixture of previous two types Simple Clauses
comment
117A Predicative Possession Locational Simple Clauses
comment
118A Predicative Adjectives Verbal encoding Simple Clauses
comment
119A Nominal and Locational Predication Different Simple Clauses
comment
120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible Simple Clauses
comment
143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb Type 1 / Type 3 Word Order
comment
143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV&[Neg-V] Word Order
comment
143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
comment
143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
comment