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.
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Tashelhiyt is spoken in Southern Morocco an area ranging from the northern slopes of the High-Atlas to the southern slopes of the Anti-Atlas, bounded to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.