Standard Moroccan Berber
Standard Moroccan Berber, also known as standard Amazigh or Tamazight, is an ongoing project to create a standardized national Moroccan variety of Berber. It was established in accordance with Article 5 of the 2011 amendments to the Moroccan Constitution.
Standard Amazigh was created by combining the three major Moroccan Berber languages, with an emphasis on the Shilha language. The creation of this standard made all the Berber languages of Morocco 'substandard'; no-one speaks Standard Amazigh natively and it must be learned in school. At the same time, a new script was created, Neo-Tifinagh, based on the traditional Tifinagh script but augmented with letters for vowels and additional letters for consonants.
