Tamazight Language Dog Names

There’s no denying that looking for Tamazight language dog names is going to impress a lot of people, but will everyone understand? If you think you’ll have trouble explaining your love for language and how it relates to your dog, then you can come up with another option. You could compare your dog’s name to one in pop culture as well as the Tamazight Language.

Atlas is the very dog to help. The word relates to Middle Atlas Tamazight Language and the Atlas Mountains. A fair portion of people from the Atlas Mountains speaks Tamazight. The mountains are in the Maghreb, spanning over 1,600 miles through Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Most people who live around the Atlas Mountains are Berber people who speak those common Berber languages such as Tamazight, Adrar, and Adras. These languages are cognates of the toponym Atlas.  

The dog of the same name is a Wire Fox Terrier who appeared in the 1938 film called Topper Takes a Trip. The movie follows Marion Kirby, Atlas’s owner, and a ghost who gets Cosmo Topper and his wife back together. The film stars the famous Constance Bennett and Skippy, the dog, which most people knew for his role as Asta.

Atlas, whose real name is Skippy, was born in 1931 to Henry and Gale East. He appeared in dozens of movies throughout the 1930s, including in his role of Atlas. His most standout part, however, was as Asta in The Thin Man. The detective comedy was a hit in 1934, with Atlas, or Skippy, starring alongside Myrna Loy and William Powell.

A biography of Skippy’s life appeared in the book by Gertrude Orr called Dog Stars of Hollywood. In it, the author described him as one of the most intelligent animal stars of the time. He could listen to verbal commands, work to hand cues, and started training as soon as he was three months old. He spent his entire life in film and had a knack for it. 

In the American Magazine, journalists described him as a dog that took everything in his stride. They said he also received a hefty paycheck of $200 a week, while his trainer would only get $60. By the end of his acting career, Skippy, or Atlas, was getting as much as $250 per week.

Even though his role as Atlas was not one of his most notable, it still put him on the global stage. Skippy lived a good life until his death in 1941.