Moroccan Arabic

Moroccan Arabic is a neuarabischer dialect and is spoken by about 20 million people as a native language and about 12 million as a second language in addition to Berber languages ​​, but live mainly in Morocco in recent years in Western Europe. It belongs to the group of the Maghreb dialects of Arabic.

The dialect can be easily confused with an occasionally referred to as Moroccan Moroccan - Arabic form one mixed with French.

The language code is ary ( ISO 639).

History

It has evolved from the classical Arabic and is strongly influenced by the language of the " natives " of Morocco, the Berber. So it knows how this syllables without vowels and sonant.

In contrast to the classical Arabic Moroccans use in Scripture and pronunciation also acquired the letter "G".

Text collections

• Colin 1955: Chrestomathie d' arabe marocain