The influence of the Berber language on Moroccan Arabic

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ID4179799
AuthorsMohamed Chtatou (corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume123
Issue1
Publication date1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl.1997.123.101
OpenAlexW2079384860
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Moroccan Arabic is much influenced by Berber phonetics, phonology, morphology, and lexicon because Berber Speakers have carried over many structural features of their native language into this variety of Arabic, to the extent that Middle East Arabic Speakers can hardly communicate with Moroccans unless they resort to the classical variety of Arabic. For this reason, Moroccan Arabic is phonologically and morphologically more distant from Classical Arabic or the Middle East colloquial varieties than it is from Berber. As a consequence of the important impact of Berber, the everyday Arabic variety spoken in the Maghrebi region as a whole is linguistically distinct from that in the Middle East areat especially at the phonological and morphological levels

Arabic · Archaeology · Lexicon · Linguistics · Middle East · Phonetics · Phonology · African Studies and Geopolitics · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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