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' Moroccan vernacular Arabic '), also known as Darija (الدارجة or الداريجة [3]), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is part of the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum and as such is mutually intelligible to some extent with Algerian Arabic and to a lesser extent with Tunisian Arabic .
Percentage of Arabic speakers in Morocco by subdivision. Arabic, along with Berber, is one of Morocco's two official languages, [6] although it is the Moroccan dialect of Arabic, namely Darija, meaning "everyday/colloquial language"; [41] that is spoken or understood, frequently as a second language, by the majority of the population (about 85% ...
Western Morocco Arabic, Western Moroccan Arabic or ʿAroubi Darija is a dialectal continuum of Hilalian Arabic, mainly spoken in the western (Doukkala, Abda, Tadla, Chaouia, Rhamna, Sraghna, Chiadma and Zaër) and central-western (Saïss, Gharb and pre-Rif) plains of Morocco. [1] It can be divided into 3 regiolects : northern, central and ...
Judeo-Moroccan Arabic is the variety or the varieties of the Moroccan vernacular Arabic spoken by Moroccan Jews living or formerly living in Morocco. [2] [3] Historically, the majority of Moroccan Jews spoke Moroccan vernacular Arabic, or Darija, as their first language, even in Amazigh areas, which was facilitated by their literacy in Hebrew script.
The Fessi dialect has traditionally been regarded as a prestige dialect over other forms of Moroccan Darija—particularly those seen as rural or 'arūbi (عروبي "of the rural Arabs")—due to its "association with the socio-economic power and dominance that its speakers enjoy at the national level," in the words of Mohammed Errihani. [1] [4]
The main spoken language in Fez is Arabic Darija (Arabic: الدارجة المغربية, lit. 'Moroccan vernacular'), a vernacular variety of Arabic. Like the inhabitants of other historical urban centers in Morocco, Ahl Fes ( أهل فاس "the people of Fes," referring especially to old elite families) speak their own distinct dialect of ...
Maghrebi Arabic, [a] often known as ad-Dārija [b] [c] [2] to differentiate it from Literary Arabic, [3] is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb.It includes the Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan, Hassaniya and Saharan Arabic dialects.
Morocco's official languages are Arabic and Berber. [7] [257] The country's distinctive group of Moroccan Arabic dialects is referred to as Darija. [258] Approximately 92.7% of the whole population can speak Arabic.