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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 .
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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).
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.
Maghrebi Arabic has a mostly Semitic Arabic vocabulary. [5] It contains Berber loanwords, which represent 2–3% of the vocabulary of Libyan Arabic, 8–9% of Algerian and Tunisian Arabic, and 10–15% of Moroccan Arabic. [6] [17] The dialect may also possess a substratum of Punic. [18]
[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. Berber languages are spoken by 24.8% of the population in three dialects (Tarifit spoken by 3.2%, Tashelhit spoken by 14.2% and Central Atlas Tamazight spoken by 7.4%). [2]
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]
Algerian Arabic (Arabic: الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-Dārja al-Jazairia), natively known as Dziria, Darja or Derja, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Algeria. It belongs to the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum and is mostly intelligible with the Tunisian and Moroccan dialects. [ 2 ]