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What languages are spoken in Morocco?
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Fri, May 26, 2006 - 7:49 PMArabic mix French .
and there is some people speak french,
Spanish is often spoken in the north morocco. English is fairly widely spoken.
and also there is some languages only in ctuies at the mountain like : Tachelhit , Tamazigh ..etc! -
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Sun, May 28, 2006 - 12:20 PMYou say there is a Arabic and French mix? -
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Mon, May 29, 2006 - 1:40 PMYes , our language is arabic mix by french. -
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Tue, May 30, 2006 - 1:41 AMThe Moroccan Arabic dialect is quite different from Modern Standard Arabic or most of the main dialects. I saw some Bahrainis talking to some Moroccans and they kept switching to English because they couldn't understand each other all the time.
It's easy enough to get by with English and French in Morocco. In most tourist areas most people speak enough English to make life easy for tourists. -
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Tue, May 30, 2006 - 7:19 AM<The Moroccan Arabic dialect is quite different>
I will never forget the time I asked an Arab friend who spoke both Egyptian and Gulf dialects to help me transcribe a Moroccan folksong (an Abdelwahab Doukali composition) just by listening to it--he had a hard time!
I learned that Arabic in the Maghreb is spoken quite differently than elsewhere in the Arabic-speaking world. Something my friend told me to pay attention to was that in the spoken language, you often don't hear the vowels enunciated. -
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Tue, May 30, 2006 - 6:41 PMyea thats right!
The Moroccan Arabic dialect is different , Let me try to give an example.hmmm, let us think of the word (قال ). In the Morrocan dialect and in standard Arabic, it will be pronounced as qal /qal/, while in the Gulf dialect or Egyptian dialect, it will be pronounced as /al/. If the Egyptian version can be written, it will be like this (آل ) . -
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Thu, June 1, 2006 - 7:43 AMI've heard that most soap operas on Arab TV are made in Egypt so many people understand Egyptian dialect. Also, most educated people will understand Modern Standard Arabic even though they wouldn't normally use it in everyday speech. Certainly people seemed to understand me when I tried my very basic MSA last time I was in Morocco.
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Thu, June 1, 2006 - 7:15 PMyes dear friend , that's right in Gulf .
and north africa is ( Gal ) too but it is different in dialect .
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Sun, August 6, 2006 - 6:26 AMIs it difficult to travel (by bus or by rail) through Morocco with the English language only? And.. is there any chance to find a free bedroom in some hotel for a day or two in September during the traveling, cause I would't to sleep on a beach :) (besides, is it against the law) ? -
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Tue, August 8, 2006 - 3:09 AMTravel in Morocco is easy with just English; certainly in all the major cities the people in the bus stations and rail stations speak enough English for you to arrange tickets.
I've never had trouble finding accommodation either. Even if hotels are fall full in a particular place, you can usually sleep on a hotel's roof terrace for very little money (20 or 25 dirhams). -
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Wed, August 9, 2006 - 1:11 PMThank you for response. Its look like I can be calm :-|
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Mon, June 26, 2006 - 8:59 PMMorocco's main laugage is different then the rest of the arab world because it's a mix of Arabic, Berber, Spanish and French.
The Darija *Morocco's main language* is full of berber syntax which makes like we "steal" the vowels.
Exemples: -Bezzaf, which means alot, comes from berber Abezzaf
-Sharjem, which means window, comes from berber Asharjem
So you can say an arab will have a hard time trying to understand darija. Unless he concentrate REAL hard. I was talking to some moroccans in Darija and the lebanese thought we were talking french. So it shows how it's difficult for them to understand.
And There are the berber dialects: Tamazight, Tacelhit... which is making a comeback due to www.ircam.ma, which want to standardize the tamazight language and wants to teach it thru out the Moroccan schools.
