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Darija (???????; also transcribed (ad-)darija (standard), derija or darja) is a term used by Maghreb
Maghreb

The Maghreb , also rendered Maghrib , meaning "place of sunset" or "western" in Arabic, is a region in North Africa. The term is generally applied to all of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, but in older Arabic usage pertained only to the area of the three countries between the high ranges of the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea....
 Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 speakers to refer to their dialect. This dialect is characterized by an abundance of loan-words from the languages of the historical colonial occupiers of the Maghreb (French and Spanish), and also from the native Berber languages. It is only used for oral communication, with Modern Standard Arabic (?????? (al-)fu?-?a) used for written communication.






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Darija (???????; also transcribed (ad-)darija (standard), derija or darja) is a term used by Maghreb
Maghreb

The Maghreb , also rendered Maghrib , meaning "place of sunset" or "western" in Arabic, is a region in North Africa. The term is generally applied to all of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, but in older Arabic usage pertained only to the area of the three countries between the high ranges of the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea....
 Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 speakers to refer to their dialect. This dialect is characterized by an abundance of loan-words from the languages of the historical colonial occupiers of the Maghreb (French and Spanish), and also from the native Berber languages. It is only used for oral communication, with Modern Standard Arabic (?????? (al-)fu?-?a) used for written communication. In Eastern Arab countries the term ??????? (al-)`ammiyya is more commonly used for the colloquial varieties of Arabic.

Darija can refer to:

  • Algerian Arabic
    Algerian Arabic

    Algerian Arabic is the Varieties of Arabic or varieties of Arabic language spoken in Algeria. In Algeria, as elsewhere, spoken Arabic differs from written Arabic; Algerian Arabic has an essentially Berber phonetic , a vocabulary with many new words and some loanwords from Berber, Turkish language, Spanish language, and French language, and li...
  • ?assaniyya
    Hassaniya

    Hassaniya Arabic is an Arabic language Varieties of Arabic originally spoken by the Beni Hassan Bedouin tribes, who extended their authority over most of Mauritania and the Western Sahara between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries....
    , spoken by the Saharans in Mauritania and the West Saharra.
  • Libyan Arabic
    Libyan Arabic

    Libyan Arabic is a collective term for the closely related varieties of Arabic spoken in Libya. It can be divided into two major dialect areas; the eastern centred in Benghazi, and the western centred in Tripoli....
  • Moroccan Arabic
    Moroccan Arabic

    Moroccan Arabic is the Varieties of Arabic spoken in the Arabic language-speaking areas of Morocco, as opposed to the official communications of government and other public bodies which use Modern Standard Arabic, as is the case in most Arabic-speaking countries, while a mixture of French language and Moroccan Arabic is used in Business....
  • Tunisian Arabic
    Tunisian Arabic

    Tunisian Arabic is a Maghrebi Arabic dialect of the Arabic language, spoken by some 11 million people. It is usually known by its own speakers as Darija, to distinguish it from Standard Arabic, or as Tunsi, which means Tunisian....
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See also

  • Varieties of Arabic
    Varieties of Arabic

    The Arabic language is a Semitic language with many Variety that diverge widely from one another?both from country to country and within a single country....