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Moroccan Arabic
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Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Morocco
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ddɛɾiʒə ]
- Native to
- Morocco
- Ethnicity
- Moroccan Arabs , also used as a second language by other ethnic groups in Morocco
- Speakers
- L1 : 31 million (2020) , L2 : 9.6 million (2020) , Total: 40 million (2020)
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Central Arabic Maghrebi Moroccan Arabic
- Dialects
- Hilalian :, • West Moroccan Arabic , • East Moroccan Arabic Pre-Hilalian :, • Fessi dialect , • Judeo-Moroccan , • Jebli Arabic
- Writing system
- Arabic alphabet
- Iso 639 3
- ary – Moroccan Arabic
- Glottolog
- moro1292
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Maghrebi Arabic
- Country
- Western Sahara
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- Commons category
- Moroccan Arabic dialect
- Wikimedia language code
- ary
- topic's main category
- Category:Moroccan Arabic
- linguistic typology
- fusional language
- writing system
- Arabic script
- native label
- الداريجة
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 27500000
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/ary
- P10369
- Mariazell
- entry in abbreviations table
- Fas
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Encyclopedic overview
Nawal speaking Moroccan Arabic. Decorations written in Moroccan Arabic at Chez Ali palace in Marrakesh
Moroccan Arabic (Arabic: العربية المغربية الدارجة, romanized: al-ʻArabiyyah al-Maghribiyyah ad-Dārija lit. 'Moroccan vernacular Arabic'), also known as Darija (الدارجة or الداريجة), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco. 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. It is spoken by 91.9% of the population of Morocco, with 80.6% of Moroccans considering it their native language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moroccan Arabic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.