Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 ary
Moroccan Arabic Language الداريجة المغريبية
Moroccan Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 31 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts.
Where Moroccan Arabic is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Moroccan Arabic
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabian
- Arabic
- North African Arabic
- Western Middle Arabic
- Maghrebi
- Moroccan Arabic
Writing system
Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts
Related languages
About the Moroccan Arabic language
Moroccan Arabic (الداريجة المغريبية) is spoken by about 31 million people, which makes it the 53rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Sundanese (32 million) and ahead of Ukrainian (29 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Maghrebi group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is Moroccan Arabic spoken?
Moroccan Arabic is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Morocco (33 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Morocco — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Moroccan Arabic is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Moroccan Arabic is written in the Perso-Arabic and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Algerian Arabic, Tunisian Arabic, Maltese, Hassaniyya, Libyan Arabic, Standard Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ary.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.