Eastern Morocco Arabic

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Eastern Morocco Arabic
Oujda Darija
Native to Morocco
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog oujd1238

Eastern Morocco Arabic, Eastern Moroccan Arabic or Oujda Darija is a dialectal continuum of Hilalian Arabic, mainly spoken in Oujda area and in a part of Oriental region of Morocco. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. 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
  2. M. El Himer, Variations linguistiques de l’arabe marocain: de la démarcation régionale à la neutralisation urbaine (unpublished) Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. S. Elbaz, « La subordination en arabe d'Oujda », Arabica, No.28, 1981, n.333-344.
  4. P. Behnstedt & M. Benabbou, « Données nouvelles sur les parlers arabes du nord-est marocain », Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik, n.44, 2005, p.17-70.