Maghrebi Arabic

Maghrebinisches Arabic (Arabic الدارجة المغربية, also: West Arabic, Maghreb Arabic, Maghreb Arabic or only Maghreb ) is a collective term for the varieties of Arabic spoken in the Maghreb. The speakers call their own dialect as Darija, which is the Arabic term for dialect.

The Maghreb dialects of Arabic dialect form their own group and are mutually largely understandable.

Usually the term is geographically based solely on the Maghreb, but also the Maltese language arose from a Maghrebi dialect; later it was expanded to a modern standard language. Likewise, it was in the extinct Sicilian Arabic as well as the Andalusian - Arabic is a Maghrebi dialect.

In everyday language, almost exclusively the respective dialects are used in the distribution area, also in Tunisian or Moroccan television series you can hear them often.

Characteristics

A common feature of all Maghreb dialects, how do they differ from the dialects of the Mashreq, the different formation of the first person singular and plural of the past tense. Compared to the Tunisian dialect of Cairo, this feature expresses write the example as follows: Tunes. niktib is Egyptian. aktib or tunes. niktbu and Egypt. niktib opposite. Characteristic of this prefix is ​​n in the first Psalm, and the suffix u in the plural form.

It exisitieren various other peculiarities in morphology and lexis that make the Maghreb in its entirety unintelligible to speakers of the high- Arab, such as almost always occurring omission of short vowels.

The Maghreb dialects have been characterized mainly in the lexicon greatly from the Berber languages ​​for their displacement, they are also responsible. They also have some loanwords from French and Italian to, due to the colonial period.

Geographical Distribution

Main distribution area of the Maghreb dialects are the countries of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania. Smaller numbers of speakers exist in the adjacent areas of Egypt, Mali and Senegal.

Dialects

Among the Maghreb dialects are counted:

  • Pre- hilalisch: Jebli
  • Jjel
  • Sicilian - Arabic ( †) Maltese ( influenced by English )
  • Bedouin: Hassaniya
  • Saharan Arabic
Mashriq Tunisian Arabic Banu Hilal
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