Langenesis

Afro-Asiatic family

Moroccan Arabic (Darija)

c. 800 CE – today Living

Moroccan Arabic (Darija) (c. 800 CE – today) is a living Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Old Arabic → Classical Arabic → Moroccan Arabic (Darija).

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Speakers
30M (30,000,000)
ISO 639-3
ary
Glottocode
moro1292

Maghrebi Arabic of Morocco, with a strong Berber substrate and French and Spanish loans. Largely unintelligible to speakers of Mashriqi dialects.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  3. Proto-West Semiticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
  4. Proto-Central Semiticc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  5. Old Arabicc. 800 BCE – 500 CE
  6. Classical Arabic500 CE – 1500 CE
  7. Moroccan Arabic (Darija)c. 800 CE – today

Sister languages 6

Also descended from Classical Arabic.

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