Arabic, Moroccan Spoken
A language of Morocco
| Population | 18,800,000 in Morocco (1995). Population total all countries: 21,048,900. |
| Region | North, south of Atlas Mountains, including Sahara port cities. Also in Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Libya, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Western Sahara. |
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Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara |
| Alternate names | Colloquial Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Maghribi, Moroccan Arabic, Moroccan Colloquial Arabic, Moroccan Dareja, Moroccan Darija, Moroccan Dereja |
| Dialects | Rabat-Casablanca Arabic, Fez, Meknes, Tangier, Oujda, Jebli (Jebelia, Jbala), Southern Morocco Arabic, Marrakech. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara] (Saudi Arabia). |
| Language use | 5,000,000 L2 speakers. Speakers are keenly aware of differences with other Arabic varieties. |
| Language development | NT: 1932. |
| Writing system | Arabic script. |
| Comments | Speakers across North Africa call their spoken Arabic varieties ‘darija’ or ‘darijah’, so it is not specific for this variety. SVO; prepositions; genitives, adjectives, relatives after noun heads; articles and numerals before noun heads; question word initial; prefixes 3. suffixes 4; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects, topic and comment; affixes do not indicate case of noun phrase; verb affixes mark person, number, gender of subject, object-obligatory; CCVCC; nontonal. Muslim (Sunni). |
Also spoken in:
Western Sahara
| Language name | Arabic, Moroccan Spoken |
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| Language use | Official language. |
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