Previous studies. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (referred to as ššelḥa by the speakers themselves, i.e. by the Morrocan Arabic name for Berber) has been the subject of few studies in the past. The first study is an article by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ from the colonial period (Colin, 1929). In this article he attempted to give an explanation for the existence of this isolated Berber variant. According to him the major trade routs from Fes to the ports of Tangier in the west and Bades in the central Rif caused the spread of Arabic. Only the geographically most isolated area behind the major mountainous chain, the highest peak of which is the Tidighine (2452 meter), 1 Tamazight is the recently introduced term used by Berbers to refer to Berber languages in general. Depending on the area the name is used by the speakers for their own language.
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