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Learn the details of the languages ​​of Morocco and some of their words

What can identify a place more than its languages? Knowing a country also means knowing its language. Two languages ​​are spoken in Morocco: Arabic and Berber, both completely different.
There are differences between Standard Arabic and the Arabic spoken in Morocco, and here we reveal the details:

Standard Arabic is the official language of all Arab countries (Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, Somalia, Palestine, Libya, Jordan, Eritrea, Lebanon, Mauritania, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Comoros and Djibouti) and therefore serves as a vehicle of communication between them all.

Although many people and some media outlets use them as synonyms, the words Arab and Muslim designate two different things. The former refers to a culture and a language and the latter to a religion, and although there are many Arab Muslims, there are also non-Arab Muslims and Arabs of other faiths. The relationship between the two is that Classical Arabic is the language in which the Quran, the sacred revelation for Muslims, is recorded.

Aside from the official Standard Arabic (which is the language studied in schools and used to write almost all literature and newspapers), each country has its own dialect for everyday speech; in Morocco, this dialect is called Darija.

Berber is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family. There is a unique native alphabet, and it is estimated that around 60% of Morocco's population speaks some variant of Berber (Riffian, Tamazight, and Tashelhit).




Here are the basic and most common expressions to use when interacting with locals:
  • Good morning / Good night
  • Salam Alekum / Msal'khir
  • Good morning / Good night
    Salam Alekum / Msal'khir
  • How are you?
    Labass
  • Very well, thank you, and you?
    Labass Hamdoullah
  • I understand / I don't understand
    Fhamt / Ma Fhamtch
  • Sorry
    Smahli
  • See you later
    Bsslama
  • Welcome
    Marhba
  • Thank you (very much)
    Choukran (choukran bezaf)
  • Sorry
    Smahli
  • My name is...
    Ismiyti
  • No, thanks
    The choukran
  • Sorry
    Afak
Learning a language means having another window through which to observe the world.