Western Morocco Arabic
Appearance
Western Morocco Arabic | |
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ʿAroubi Darija | |
Native to | Morocco |
Arabic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Map showing Western Moroccan Arabic speaking areas (yellow) |
Western Morocco Arabic, Western Moroccan Arabic or ʿAroubi Darija is a dialectal continuum of Hilalian Arabic, mainly spoken in the western (Doukkala, Abda, Tadla, Chaouia, Rhamna, Sraghna, Chiadma and Zaër) and central-western (Saïss, Gharb and pre-Rif) plains of Morocco.[1]
It can be divided into 3 regiolects : northern, central and southern.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ M. El Himer, Zones linguistiques du Maroc arabophone : contacts et effets à Salé, in: Between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Studies on Contemporary Arabic, 7th AIDA Conference, 2006, held in Vienna Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ M. El Himer, Variations linguistiques de l’arabe marocain: de la démarcation régionale à la neutralisation urbaine (unpublished) Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine