Editing Atlas languages (section)

{{Short description|Northern Berber language subgroup of Morocco}}
{{Infobox language family
| name          = Atlas languages
| altname       = Masmuda
| region        = [[Atlas Mountains]], [[Souss]]
| familycolor   = Afro-Asiatic
| fam2          = [[Berber languages|Berber]]
| fam3          = [[Northern Berber languages|Northern Berber]]
| child1        = [[Shilha language|Shilha]]
| child2        = [[Central Atlas Tamazight]]
| child3        = [[Senhaja de Srair language|Senhaja de Srair]]
| child4        = [[Ghomara language|Ghomara]]<ref name="Kossman" />
| child5        = [[Lisan al-Gharbi]] (extinct)
| glotto        = atla1275
| glottorefname = Atlas Berber
}}

The '''Atlas languages''' are a subgroup of the [[Northern Berber languages]] of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the [[Atlas Mountains]] of [[Morocco]]. By [[mutual intelligibility]], they are a single language spoken by perhaps 14 million people; however, they are distinct [[sociolinguistic]]ally and are considered separate languages by the [[Royal institute of the Amazigh culture]]. They are:<ref name="Glottolog4.3">{{cite web| editor-last1= Hammarström| editor-first1 = Harald| editor-last2 = Forke| editor-first2 = Robert| editor-last3 = Haspelmath| editor-first3 = Martin| editor-last4 = Bank| editor-first4 = Sebastian| year = 2020|title = Atlas Berber| work = [[Glottolog]] 4.3| url = https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/atla1275}}</ref><ref name="Kossman">{{Citation |last=Kossmann |first=Maarten |title=Berber |date=2020-05-07 |work=The Oxford Handbook of African Languages |pages=281–289 |editor-last=Vossen |editor-first=Rainer |url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38608/chapter/334725433 |access-date=2025-05-26 |edition=1 |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199609895.013.37 |isbn=978-0-19-960989-5 |editor2-last=Dimmendaal |editor2-first=Gerrit J.}}</ref>
* [[Central Atlas Tamazight]] (Central Atlas Berber), spoken in the central Atlas Mountains
* [[Shilha language|Shilha]] (''Tashelhiyt''; also rendered ''Tachelhit, Tasusit''; includes [[Judeo-Berber language|Judeo-Berber]] and perhaps the extinct [[Lisan al-Gharbi]]), spoken in southern Morocco
* [[Sanhaja de Srair language|Sanhaja de Srair]], spoken in the southern part of the [[Rif]]
* [[Ghomara language|Ghomara]], spoken in the western part of the [[Rif]]
* [[Lisan al-Gharbi]], formerly spoken in western Morocco.
[[File:Percent of Tashlhit speakers in Morocco by census 2004.png|thumb|Percent of Tashelhit speakers (use in everyday's communication) in 2004<ref name="Census">{{cite web|url=http://www.hcp.ma/Recensement-general-de-la-population-et-de-l-habitat-2004_a633.html|title=Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat 2004|first=Youssef|last=Maaroufi}}</ref>]]
[[File:Percent of Tmazight speakers in Morocco by census 2004.png|thumb|Percent of Central Tamazight speakers (use in everyday's communication) in 2004<ref name="Census" />]]