The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: ARY
ISO 639-2: sem
| Population | 18,800,000 in Morocco (1995), 65% of the population (1991). Perhaps another 20% speak it as second language. Population total all countries 19,542,000. |
| Region | Northern Morocco and southern Morocco south of the Atlas Mts., and including the port cities of the Sahara. Also spoken in Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Netherlands, United Kingdom. |
| Alternate names | MAGHREBI ARABIC, MAGHRIBI COLLOQUIAL ARABIC |
| Dialects | RABAT-CASABLANCA ARABIC, FEZ. MEKNES, TANGIER ARABIC, OUJDA, JEBLI (JEBELIA, JBALA), SOUTHERN MOROCCO ARABIC, MARRAKECH ARABIC. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic. |
| Comments | Speakers prefer their own variety to Algerian Arabic, Tunisian Arabic, and Libyan Arabic. Speakers across North Africa call their spoken Arabic varieties 'darija' or 'darijah', so it is not specific for this variety. Sunni Muslim. NT 1932. |
