page_title: Shilha people
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Shilha people / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Foto van een professionele fotograaf, werd in grote aantallen verkocht. Op de achterkant van deze prentbriefkaart staat gedrukt "nr. 828. Photos editions Art-Maroc-Rabat 6, Impasse Van-Vollenhoven".
context_page_description: The Shilha people, or Ishelhien, are a major Berber subgroup primarily inhabiting the southwestern mountains, Sous River, and southern coastal regions of Morocco.
context_section_description: The Shilha people traditionally call themselves ishelhien. This endonym is rendered as les Chleuh in French. The Ishelhien are also known as Shluh and Schlöh. Among Arabic speakers, Chleuh serves as an appellation for Berbers generally, although Imazighen is the proper Berber self-name for Berbers as a whole.
  
  The Shilha people should not be confused with Sous people, which are a Shilha community alongside Ihahan and other Shilha communities.
  The Shilha people live mainly in Morocco's southern Atlantic coast, the High Atlas Mountains, the Anti Atlas mountains, and the Sous Valley. They are of Berber origin, which along with the Berber people, includes other ethnic subgroups such as the Tuareg, Rif, Kabyle, Shawia and Beraber. The Shilha people are a part of Morocco's Berber-speaking community, and the southernmost residing Berber population.
caption: A shilha woman from Tafraout, Morocco
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