Western Morocco Arabic, Western Moroccan Arabic or ʿAroubi Arabic is a
dialectal continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
of
Hilalian Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
, mainly spoken in the plains of western (
Doukkala, Abda,
Tadla
Tadla is a historical and geographical region of Morocco, located in the center of the country, north of the High Atlas mountain range and west of the Middle Atlas. It is the region of origin of the eponymous collection of tribal, semi-nomadic pas ...
,
Chaouia,
Rhamna,
Sraghna,
Chiadma
The Chiadma () are an Arab or Arabized Berber tribe located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco in the region between Safi and Essaouira.
Territory
The Chiadma territory is divided into two regions. The western portion lies between the sacred mou ...
and
Zaër) and central-western (
Saïss,
Gharb and
pre-Rif) plains of
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...
.
[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
It can be divided into 3
regiolect
The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena:
One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...
s : northern, central and southern.
[M. El Himer]
Variations linguistiques de l’arabe marocain: de la démarcation régionale à la neutralisation urbaine
(unpublished)
See also
*
Moroccan Arabic
Moroccan Arabic ( ar, العربية المغربية الدارجة, translit=al-ʻArabīya al-Maghribīya ad-Dārija ), also known as Darija (), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco. It is part of the Maghreb ...
References
Arabic languages
Moroccan Arabic
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