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The Chleuh people (or Shleuh or Shluh: the 'ch' is the French equivalent of the English 'sh'; native name 'aš?l?i', pl. 'iš?l?iyn') are a Berber
Berber people

Berbers are the indigenous ethnic groups of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are discontinuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River....
 ethnic group. They live mainly in Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
's Atlas Mountains
Atlas Mountains

The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2,400 km through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Jbel Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco....
 and Souss Valley. The Chleuh population is estimated to be approximately 10,000,000. They speak the Tashelhiyt language
Tashelhiyt language

Tashelhiyt is the largest Berber languages by number of speakers . 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....
 in several regional varieties. The indigenous peoples of the central Moroccan coast
Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
, noted by the early Phoenicia
Phoenicia

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, extending to parts of Israel, Syria and the Palestinian territories....
n explorers, would have been the Chleuh.






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The Chleuh people (or Shleuh or Shluh: the 'ch' is the French equivalent of the English 'sh'; native name 'aš?l?i', pl. 'iš?l?iyn') are a Berber
Berber people

Berbers are the indigenous ethnic groups of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are discontinuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River....
 ethnic group. They live mainly in Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
's Atlas Mountains
Atlas Mountains

The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2,400 km through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Jbel Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco....
 and Souss Valley. The Chleuh population is estimated to be approximately 10,000,000. They speak the Tashelhiyt language
Tashelhiyt language

Tashelhiyt is the largest Berber languages by number of speakers . 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....
 in several regional varieties. The indigenous peoples of the central Moroccan coast
Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
, noted by the early Phoenicia
Phoenicia

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, extending to parts of Israel, Syria and the Palestinian territories....
n explorers, would have been the Chleuh. The first millennium voyages of Hanno
Hanno

Hanno may refer to:* Hanno, Saitama, Honshu, Japan* Hanno , a lunar crater* Hanno , the pet white elephant of Pope Leo XPeople named Hanno:...
 described the Phoenicians' methods of peacefully trading with the native peoples of the Mogador area.

The Chleuh are associated with Berber music of Morocco
Music of Morocco

Morocco is inhabited mostly by Arabs along with Berber people and other minorities. Its music is predominantly Arab, but Andalusian and other imported influences have had a major effect on the country's musical character....
 and dance.

Through a process of linguistic transference, which is not completely clear but evidently dates from the period of French colonial rule in North Africa
North Africa

North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa.Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Northern Africa includes the following seven countries or territories:...
, the name "Chleuh" also came to be a French pejorative term for Germans
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
 (see: List of terms used for Germans#France).

See also

  • Anti-Atlas
    Anti-Atlas

    The Anti-Atlas or Jebel Saghru, or Lesser Atlas, is one of the mountain ranges lying in Morocco, as part of the Atlas mountains in the northwest of Africa....
     - native subregion of the Atlas Mountains
    Atlas Mountains

    The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2,400 km through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Jbel Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco....
    .


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