L’arabe dialectal marocain, entre centralisation et territorialisation

Abstract

In recent years, several attempts to normalize and standardize a "common", "uniform" or "central" Moroccan Arabic have emerged in Morocco. However, this language does not have an authentic existence given the multiplicity of Moroccan Arabic dialects. In this regard, several questions arise: Why establish a standard for Moroccan Arabic? What type of standard is involved? What does the "multi" nature of Moroccan Arabic reveal? What are the linguistic policies undertaken by the Moroccan state with regard to Moroccan Arabic and its regional varieties?By confronting two contradictory linguistic policies, "linguistic centralization" and "linguistic territorialization", and by feeding them with linguistic data collected from monographs and descriptions of Moroccan Arabic dialects, we will try to question two ways of approaching Moroccan Arabic and its varieties. The first one aims to normativize and normalize a common or reference Moroccan Arabic, the second one considers the "multi" nature of Moroccan Arabic as a richness and aims at valorizing the multiplicity of Moroccan Arabic dialects.

Keywords

• Moroccan Arabic
• linguistic diversity
• language policies
• linguistic centralization
• linguistic territorialization
• linguistic standardization and normalization