The exact population of speakers of Berber languages is hard to ascertain, since most North African countries do not - traditionally - record language data in their censuses (An exception to this was the 2004 Morocco population census).
The Tashelhit language is considered to be the most widely spoken as it covers the whole of the Region Souss-Massa-Drâa, and is also spoken in the Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz and Tadla-Azilal regions.