Moroccan Darija in Online Creation Communities: Example of Wikipedia

Sedrati, Anass; Ali, Abderrahman Ait

doi:10.25267/aam.2019.i26.11

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“…Situated at a crossroads between Africa, Europe, and the Islamic world, Morocco has historically been a region where different cultures met and mixed with each other. An interesting outcome of this rich history is the emergence of the so-called Moroccan Darija ( Sedrati & Ait ali, 2019 ).…”

Section: C) Wikipediamentioning

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“…Moreover, taking this step will respect people"s sub-languages and avoid discrimination among them. The aim of this project was to create an official MA version of Wikipedia as what occurred with the Egyptian Arabic version which has surpassed more than 20000 articles ( Sedrati & Ait ali, 2019 ).…”

Section: C) Wikipediamentioning

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“…Compared with the Egyptian version, the reason for bringing Darija into Wikipedia"s platform was to disseminate the knowledge in a handy and workable way. Thereby, this will free Moroccans from searching somewhere in CA and western languages as well, which offers poor quality documentation of the local culture and history of Morocco ( Sedrati & Ait ali, 2019 ).…”

Section: C) Wikipediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second reason, the children of Moroccan immigrants living abroad mainly in Europe do not know the Arabic Alphabet and they use only the Latin alphabet for better communication. Eventually, at the beginning of April 2019, some opponents emerged who absolutely reject the use of a given alphabet, or a certain dialect and even questioned the presence of Darija on Wikipedia pages, leading to the decline of articles published in Darija, something that frustrates and discourages editors who see the waste of their efforts in front of their eyes ( Sedrati & Ait ali, 2019 ).…”

Section: C) Wikipediamentioning

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the Triglossic Situation in the Moroccan Mass media

Gharioua¹

2023

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It is obvious that Triglossia exists in many societies around the world. But its penetration in mass media seems to be a debatable issue. Morocco as one of those countries encountered Triglossia in society and the Moroccan mass media. The research problem aims to detect if Triglossia is present in the mass media or if it is experienced only inside society. We have introduced our first objective to determine Triglossia as a phenomenon in the field of sociolinguistics. The second objective addresses this linguistic phenomenon in Moroccan society and its incursion into mass media too. In addition to this, we utilized a quantitative design consisting of an online questionnaire as a source of data collection. We have also attached an interview to enhance our way of analyzing the study. The participants had been selected from S2, S4 and S6 students male and female, aged between 18-50 years old.The study revealed in the results section that there is a blurry status as to whether Triglossia can be found in the Moroccan mass media or not ( figure 4 ). Besides, there is an arguable issue of whether Darija should be fundamental in TV news and newspapers. In other words, there are conflicting agreements anddisagreementst between participants ( figure 5/6 ). Furthermore, in ( figure 9 ) people are not sure if SA serves the interests of all Moroccans or not. In brief, the findings are hard to challenge. However, we have provided sufficient analysis to assist in our previous aims and objectives.

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Section: C) Wikipediamentioning

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Section: C) Wikipediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: C) Wikipediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: C) Wikipediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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