Western Morocco Arabic | |
Also Known As: | ʿAroubi Darija |
States: | Morocco |
Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
Fam2: | Semitic |
Fam3: | West |
Fam4: | Central |
Fam5: | North Arabian |
Fam6: | Arabic |
Fam7: | Maghrebi |
Fam8: | Hilalian |
Fam9: | Moroccan |
Script: | Arabic alphabet |
Map: | Western Moroccan Arabic Map.PNG |
Mapcaption: | 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]