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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 .
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.
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% of the total population).
Arabic. Maghrebi. Moroccan. Eastern Morocco Arabic; ... ISO 639-3 – Glottolog: oujd1238: Eastern Morocco Arabic or Oujda Darija is a dialectal continuum of Hilalian ...
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]
One of the characteristics of Franco-Arabic as it is used to transcribe Darija is the presence of long consonant clusters that are typically unorthodox in other languages. These clusters represents the deletion of short vowels and the syllabification of medial consonants in the phonology of Darija, a feature shared with and derived from Amazigh ...
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.
The radio is broadcast in Moroccan Darija and the Rif dialect but in fact it was not an obligation but a choice because before cap radio the state radios only used Arabic or French. The radio at this time was a means of communication with the elite and in addition the target audience only had the right to receive and not to participate.