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I just deleted the following table from the article. I did so for three reasons:
I'm sorry for the original research I fitted into the article, but it builds upon two sources: the official population figures of the regions and the map inserted in the article. Until we get some better sources, we could leave the text like that. It is, in my opinion, better than a Looklex-sourced table, which cannot be considered a well-sourced information.-- Ilyacadiz ( talk) 17:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
deleted table, sourced to Looklex:
Ethnic groups of Morocco | Population | % of total Population |
---|---|---|
Arabs (and Arabised-Berbers) | 26 000 000 | 80% |
Berbers | 6 000 000 | 19% |
Sahrawis | 250 000 | 0.8% |
Other | 110 000 | 0.2% |
I have a good source, The Moroccan population census of 2004 asked people older than 5 what languages did they speak, the figures are on the Haut commissariat au plan which is an official Governmental website, it gives the numbers by region (12 regions in total), after adding things up:
I'll add these figures later with the proper link. Tachfin ( talk) 10:12, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Rev the last edit, the use of the term "Amazigh" instead of "Berber" is per official government terminology as used in the Constitution text, and on the government website
here you can read:
the official status of the Arabic language has been enhanced, and the Amazigh language has been granted an official status with a gradual integration process (schools and main public sectors).
There is no "English word" issue because:
The Vocabulary of a widely diffused and highly cultivated living language is not a fixed quantity circumscribed by definite limits...there is absolutely no defining line in any direction: the circle of the English language has a well-defined centre but no discernible circumference.
Lastly, this is merely an esthetic issue. Even if a user does not recognize the term while reading the wikilinks are provided to redirect to the proper "Berber Languages" page. Tachfin ( talk) 18:52, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
There is some data from some interviews from the Ennaji that may be useful on here:
I'll be using this survey as a source WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:59, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
Actually, different sources give different figures about the % of French speakers in Morocco :
Imho we should only put the "crude data" on the Template (33% (OIF) to 39% (census), these are relatively close), and put the details in the corpus of the article, explaining the details given by each source.
Regards,
--
Omar-toons (
talk) 05:06, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
As the inclusion of political maps is not indispensable and since a map without borders is already given on the infobox, imho we can avoid putting any map with marked political borders as it is contrary to WP:NPOV to make the disputed territory of Western Sahara as fully independent or fully integrated to Morocco.
On the other hand, the map of the 2004 census is based on regional data that can't be ultimately "croped" to a region like on Mouh2jijel's map ; for example, Berber speaking population in the Goulmime-Smara region is concentrated on the north, and if they only represent 20-40% of the province's population, the figure could be up to 60-70% on the northern part of the region, then the second map would be biased: this is why WP:OR can't be added to Wiki.
For all these reasons, keeping the article without political map would be, imho, the appropriate way to avoid a WP:POV dispute.
Regards,
--
Omar-toons (
talk) 09:37, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
After Morocco gained independence with the end of the French Protectorate in 1956, it started a process of Arabization, with the aim of transforming the nation into a monolingual one, with political and economic independence and an Arab-Islamic identity. In the year 2000, after years of neglecting and ignoring the other languages present in Morocco, the Charter for Educational Reform recognized them and the necessity for them. Until then the Tamazight languages were marginalized in the modern society and the number of monolingual speakers decreased. In recent years, the Tamazight culture has been gaining strength and some developments promise that these languages will not die (Tamazight is the generic name for the Berber languages. The term Berber is not used nor known by the speakers of these languages).
Arabic, on the other hand, was always perceived as a prestigious language in Morocco. However, there are very distinctive varieties of Arabic used, not all equally prestigious, which are MSA (Modern Standard Arabic), the written form used in schools and ‘Dialectal Arabic’, the non-standardized spoken form. The great difference between the two forms in terms of grammar, phonology and vocabulary is so great, it can be considered as diglossia. MSA is practically foreign to Moroccan schoolchildren, and this creates problems with reading and writing, consequently leading to a high level of illiteracy in Morocco.
The French language is also dominant in Morocco, especially in education and administration, therefore, was initially learned by an elite and later on was learned by a great number of Moroccans for use in domains such as finance, science, technology and media. That is despite the government decision to implement a language policy of ignoring French after gaining independence, for the sake of creating a monolingual country. From its independence until the year 2000, Morocco opted for Arabization as a policy, in an attempt of replacing French with Arabic. By the end of the 1980s, Arabic was the dominant language in education, although French was still in use in many important domains. The goals of Arabization were not met, in linguistic terms, therefore a change was needed.
In 2000 the Charter of Educational Reform introduced a drastic change in language policy. From then on, Morocco has adopted a clear perpetual educational language policy with three main cores: improving and reinforcing the teaching of Arabic, using a variety of languages, such as English and French in teaching the fields of technology and science and acceptance of Tamazight. The state of Morocco still sees Arabic (MSA) as its national language but acknowledges that not all Moroccans are Arabic speakers and that Arabization did not succeed in the area of science and technology. The aims of the Charter seem to have been met faster than expected, probably since the conditions of the Charter started to be implemented immediately. Nowadays the different minority languages are acknowledged in Morocco although Arabic still is the dominant one and is being promoted by the government. [1]
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For some reason this article makes clearly distinct approaches to Arabic and Berber. Arabic is always treated as a uniform language, while Berber - as many different languages. However, Berber is not very much older than Arabic. -- Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii ( talk) 01:28, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
An IP editor, user:86.129.185.144, insists on edit-warring and keeping all his changes en bloc, even though they contain at least 3 different deletions of sourced content: Francophonie, National languages, MSA as foreign. If there is any legitimate change among all of those in the edition, the IP editor should explain them ONE BY ONE. Meanwhile I can't do much more than recovering the previous edition. -- Jotamar ( talk) 16:40, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) GeoffreyT2000 ( talk) 02:32, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
Languages of Morocco → Language in Morocco – The current titles suggests that the languages spoken in Morocco are either endemic or official in some way, which is not necessarily the case. Language in Morocco would be more suitable for an article that discusses the matter of language in Morocco in general. إيان ( talk) 00:39, 15 September 2022 (UTC)