Western Morocco Arabic
| Western Moroccan Arabic | |
|---|---|
| ʿAroubi Darija | |
| عروبي | |
| Native to | Morocco |
| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
 Map showing Western Moroccan Arabic speaking areas (yellow) |
Western Moroccan Arabic or ʿAroubi Darija (Arabic: عروبي, lit. 'rural, bedouin')[1] 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.[2]
It can be divided into 3 regiolects: northern, central and southern.[3]
Speakers of Western Moroccan Arabic have began standardizing their dialect after the colonisation period. The dialect's unique vocabulary and grammar fell out of favour, influenced by Pre-Hilalian Arabic dialects and French spoken by city-dwellers.[citation needed] The Western Moroccan Arabic Dialect is close to Najdi Arabic in certain grammatical aspects and vocabulary. The conjugation of sentences is closer to Classical Arabic compared to Pre-Hilalian Arabic Dialects. The letter "ق" is pronounced as a "G", a feature found in Bedouin Arabic Dialects.
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References
[edit]- ^ Heath, Jeffrey (2013-01-11). Jewish and Muslim Dialects of Moroccan Arabic. Routledge. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-136-12634-5.
- ^ 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- ^ M. El Himer, Variations linguistiques de l’arabe marocain: de la démarcation régionale à la neutralisation urbaine (unpublished) Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
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