Shilhan.

1713 Acct. South-west Barbary i. 28 It is about 30 days journey distant from Macquanes... They also differ from the other Moors in their language, and have a peculiar dialect to themselves, which they call Shilhah.

1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. vii. 113 The tribes who speak the Shilha language, and who are the descendants of the ancient Numidians.

1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. vii. 118 The sect of Sidi Hamed au Muza... Their language is the Shilhah, or a dialect thereof.

1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 117 The coast of Northern Africa, where only Arabic and Shilhah are spoken.

1882 F. W. Newman Libyan Vocab. 3 The Libyan language..was but one, according to St. Augustine. Now there are at least four, the Kabail in Algeria, the Shilha in the mountains of Morocco, the Tuarik..beyond the Atlas, and the Ghadamsi at Ghadames.

1921 E. Sapir Lang. 73 The Hamitic languages of Northern Africa, e.g. Shilh.

1951 W. Blunt Black Sunrise iv. 42 The Berber-speaking inhabitants can be further subdivided into Berbers proper, Shluhs, etc.

1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (Amer. Bible Soc.) (ed. 2) 389/2 Shilha is a Berber language spoken in several dialects throughout southern Morocco. Most Shilha men are bi~lingual in Arabic and their mother tongue.

1973 A. Adam in E. Gellner & C. A. Micaud Arabs & Berbers iii. xvii. 325 Tachelhit, the language of the Shleuh, who inhabit the western High Atlas, the Anti-Atlas and the plains or valleys of southwestern Morocco.

1976 K. L. Brown People of Salé iii. viii. 153 Generally the term used in Salé for those speakers of Berber languages, whether they came from the Rif, Middle Atlas, High Atlas, Anti-Atlas or the valleys of southern Morocco, was Shluh.