The Jeliya catalogue uses الدارجة / Moroccan Arabic. Glottolog indexes the corresponding language as Moroccan Arabic (moro1292). Its ISO 639-3 code is ary. [1]
Draft — awaiting native-speaker review
Darija is used in everyday Moroccan life and differs from Modern Standard Arabic. Informal Latin transliteration is not uniform.
Opening retained from the existing catalogue; awaiting editorial and speaker review.The Jeliya catalogue uses الدارجة / Moroccan Arabic. Glottolog indexes the corresponding language as Moroccan Arabic (moro1292). Its ISO 639-3 code is ary. [1]
Glottolog associates this record with the following country codes: DZ, EH, MA. Catalogue locations do not enumerate diaspora or second-language use. [1]
No dated, scope-checked speaker estimate has been approved for this page.
The catalogue classification follows this sequence: Afro-Asiatic → Semitic → West Semitic → Central Semitic → Arabian → Arabic → North African Arabic → Western Middle Arabic → Maghrebi. [1]
The Glottolog bibliography includes a linguistic description attributed to Guerrero, Jairo and Mike Turner and Montserrat Benítez Fernández and Araceli González Vázquez 2024 [1683] and a more recent one attributed to Caubet, Dominique 1989. These are publication dates, not language origins. [1]
Arabic script is the primary learner view; Latin/Arabizi transliterations are separately labelled and are not a second language. Spelling is less standardised than MSA.
Existing linguistic-map notes are planning material, not newly verified facts. A named reviewer and reference are still needed.No lexical tone. Strong unstressed-vowel reduction creates consonant clusters. Emphatics, pharyngeals and uvulars need recordings; vowel realisations differ from MSA.
Existing linguistic-map notes are planning material, not newly verified facts. A named reviewer and reference are still needed.A PHOIBLE record links published sound-inventory descriptions for this language. Inventory analysis can differ by variety and study; example words, letter values and a learner-facing pronunciation table still require a checked reference and speaker recordings. [4]
A reviewed alphabet, sound-by-sound IPA guide and reference recordings are still needed.
Awaiting a cited, language-specific contribution and speaker review.
SVO common; aspect prefixes, pronominal clitics, negation with ma…š and productive dialect-specific constructions.
Existing linguistic-map notes are planning material, not newly verified facts. A named reviewer and reference are still needed.Casablanca/Rabat-oriented Moroccan Darija; label regional forms
Existing linguistic-map notes are planning material, not newly verified facts. A named reviewer and reference are still needed.Named child varieties in this record include Fez. Meknes, Jebli, Marrakech, Oujda, Rabat-Casablanca Arabic, Southern Morocco Arabic, Tangier. These labels do not select Jeliya’s teaching variety. [1]
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Editorial adaptation: Jeliya
Language reviewer: awaiting appointment
Last revision: 10/12/2026
Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel, Martin Haspelmath and Sebastian Bank
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Source checked: 10/12/2026Caubet, Dominique 1989
Source checked: 10/12/2026