Editing Shilha language (section)

== Writing systems ==
{{Main|Berber orthography}}[[Image:Muhammad Awzal.jpg|thumb|right|200px| Shilha written in Arabic script: an 18th-century manuscript of ''al-Ḥawḍ'' by [[Mohammed Awzal|Mḥmmd Awzal]].]]Though Tashelhit has historically been an oral language, manuscripts of mostly religious texts have been written in Tashelhit using the [[Arabic script]] since at least the 16th century.<ref name="Campbell-2012b">{{Cite book |last=Campbell |first=George L. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/810078009 |title=The Routledge handbook of scripts and alphabets |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |others=Christopher Moseley |isbn=978-0-203-86548-4 |edition=2nd |location=Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon |pages=58–59 |oclc=810078009}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Saadouni |first1=Mohamed |last2=Stroomer |first2=Harry |date=2019 |title=Tashelhiyt berber manuscripts in Arabic characters: an update |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-et-documents-berberes-2019-2-page-193.htm |journal=Études et Documents Berbères |language=fr |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=193, 198 |doi=10.3917/edb.042.0193 |issn=0295-5245|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Today, Tashelhit is most commonly written in the Arabic script, although [[Neo-Tifinagh]] is also used.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Souag |first=Lameen |date=2005-07-30 |title=Writing Berber Languages |url=http://www.geocities.com/lameens/tifinagh/ |access-date=2024-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050730075554/http://www.geocities.com/lameens/tifinagh/ |archive-date=2005-07-30 }}</ref>