Monday, February 2, 2009
More about languages
I sort of feel sorry for dareeja... although Moroccans are adamant about learning their mother tongue, it is hardly used in formal life. On TV, you'll hear fusha (the Standard Arabic) or Egyptian colloquial because they make all the movies or even French on the Moroccan channels (especially when they're talking about art). The only time dareeja is on TV is for silly Moroccan soap operas or sitcoms. Otherwise, even the other colloquials win over. The sad part is that the Berber language is already dying out, so I wonder how strong dareeja will remain. Moreover, the rest of the Arab world looks down on dareeja because it's supposedly the most different from "Qur'anic Arabic" but Egyptian Arabic is pretty different too but has taken over Arab cinema. Even I've said that Moroccan Arabic is relatively useless... however a big part of the Arab world (Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunis) speaks it...
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