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

Arabic (Moroccan)

WALS coordinates: 34° N, 6° W

spoken in Morocco

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Weakly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Mixed morphological plural Nominal Categories
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37A Definite Articles Definite affix Nominal Categories
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite affix Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Absent Nominal Categories
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56A Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers Formally different Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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61A Adjectives without Nouns Without marking Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Special imperative + normal negative Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Neither type of system Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking Overlap for either possibility or necessity Verbal Categories
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79A Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect None Verbal Categories
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79B Suppletion in Imperatives and Hortatives Imperative Verbal Categories
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80A Verbal Number and Suppletion None Verbal Categories
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Adjective-Degree word Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Initial Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Identical Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible Simple Clauses
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121A Comparative Constructions Locational Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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142A Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Logical meanings Other
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation [Neg-V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144U Double negation in verb-initial languages VS & VO & [Neg-V-Neg] Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Prefix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object Suffix&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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