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Moroccan Arabic
Darija
العربية المغربية الدارجة
Pronunciation
[ddæɾiʒæ]
Native to
Morocco
Region
Western Maghreb
Ethnicity
Moroccans
Speakers
L1: 29 million (2020)[1] L2: 9.6 million (2020)[1] Total: 39 million (2020)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic
Moroccan Arabic
Dialects
West Moroccan Arabic
East Moroccan Arabic
Fessi dialect
Judeo-Moroccan
Writing system
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ary
Glottolog
moro1292
Map of Moroccan Arabic[2]
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Nawal speaking Moroccan Arabic.Decorations written in Moroccan Arabic at Chez Ali palace in Marrakech.
Moroccan Arabic (Arabic: العربية المغربية الدارجة, romanized: al-ʻArabiyyah al-Maghribiyyah ad-Dārija[3] lit.'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. It is spoken by 90.9% of the population of Morocco.[6] While Modern Standard Arabic is used to varying degrees in formal situations such as religious sermons, books, newspapers, government communications, news broadcasts and political talk shows, Moroccan Arabic is the predominant spoken language of the country and has a strong presence in Moroccan television entertainment, cinema and commercial advertising. Moroccan Arabic has many regional dialects and accents as well, with its mainstream dialect being the one used in Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, Marrakesh and Fez, and therefore it dominates the media and eclipses most of the other regional accents.
SIL International classifies Moroccan Arabic, Hassaniya Arabic and Judeo-Moroccan Arabic as different varieties of Arabic.
^ abcMoroccan Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Ennaji, Moha (1998). Arabic Varieties in North Africa. Centre for Advanced Studies of African Soc. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-919799-12-4.
^Abdel-Massih, Ernest Tawfik (1973). An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic. Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan. ISBN 9780932098078.
^Yabiladi.com. "Darija, a lingua franca influenced by both Arabic Tamazight and". en.yabiladi.com. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
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