1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Genus: Semitic

Arabic (Moroccan)

WALS coordinates: 34° N, 6° W

spoken in Morocco

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Arabic (Western)
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Moroccan Arabic,
    • Maghrebi Arabic
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
    Morphology
    Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing
    Nominal Categories
    Coding of Nominal Plurality Mixed morphological plural
    Definite Articles Definite affix
    Indefinite Articles Indefinite affix
    Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
    Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th
    Numeral Classifiers Absent
    Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally different
    Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
    Nominal Syntax
    Adjectives without Nouns Without marking
    Verbal Categories
    Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
    The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
    The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative
    Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system
    The Optative Inflectional optative absent
    Situational Possibility Verbal constructions
    Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions
    Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for either possibility or necessity
    Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None
    Verbal Number and Suppletion None
    Word Order
    Order of Subject and Verb VS
    Order of Object and Verb VO
    Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
    Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
    Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
    Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
    Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
    Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
    Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word
    Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
    Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
    Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
    Simple Clauses
    Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
    Negative Morphemes Double negation
    Polar Questions Question particle
    Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding
    Nominal and Locational Predication Identical
    Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible
    Comparative Constructions Locational
    Lexicon
    Hand and Arm Identical
    Finger and Hand Different
    Other
    Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Logical meanings