Languages of Morocco
The official languages of Morocco are Modern Standard Arabic and Standard Moroccan Tamazight. Moroccan Arabic (known as Darija) is the primary spoken vernacular and lingua franca, but a number of regional and foreign languages are also spoken. According to the 2024 Moroccan census, 92.7% of the population (including second-language speakers) spoke Arabic, whereas 24.8% spoke Amazigh languages. Despite this, estimates of speakers of an Amazigh language from academic institutions like INALCO and independent linguists such as Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi range from 40% to 45%. The languages of prestige in Morocco are Arabic in its Classical and Modern Standard forms and sometimes French, the latter of which serves as a second language for approximately 33% of Moroccans. According to the 2024 census, 99.2% or almost the entire literate population of Morocco could read and write in Arabic, whereas only 1.5% of the population could read and write in Tifinagh, the official alphabet for Standard...
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