In general, Moroccan Arabic is one of the most innovative (in the technical sense of "least conservative") of all Arabic dialects. Nowadays Moroccan Arabic continues to integrate new French words, mainly in Technology, however, in recent years constant exposure to revived Classical forms on television and in print media and a certain desire among many Moroccans for a revitalization of their Arab and Islamic identities has inspired many Moroccans to integrate words from Standard Arabic, replacing their French or Spanish counterparts or even s ...

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Moroccan Arabic, Moroccan Arabic - Overview, Moroccan Arabic - Integration with other languages, Moroccan Arabic - Pronunciation, Moroccan Arabic - Vocabulary, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from Berber, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from French, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from Spanish, Moroccan Arabic - Grammar, Moroccan Arabic - Evolution, Moroccan Arabic - Diglossia and social prestige, Moroccan Arabic - Artistic expression

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Moroccan Arabic, Moroccan Arabic - Overview, Moroccan Arabic - Integration with other languages, Moroccan Arabic - Pronunciation, Moroccan Arabic - Vocabulary, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from Berber, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from French, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from Spanish, Moroccan Arabic - Grammar, Moroccan Arabic - Evolution, Moroccan Arabic - Diglossia and social prestige, Moroccan Arabic - Artistic expression

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Moroccan Arabic has a distinct pronunciation and is nearly unintelligible to other Arabic speakers apart, to a certain degree, from those from other Maghreb countries One of the most notable features of Moroccan Arabic is the collapse of short vowels. Short /a/ and /i/ are deleted entirely in most positions, and short /u/ is either deleted or maintained only as rounding on an adjacent labial consonant. This can result in long strings of consonants (a feature shared with Berber and almost certainly derived from it). These clusters are never simplified; instead, consonants occurring between other consonants tend ...

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Moroccan Arabic, Moroccan Arabic - Overview, Moroccan Arabic - Integration with other languages, Moroccan Arabic - Pronunciation, Moroccan Arabic - Vocabulary, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from Berber, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from French, Moroccan Arabic - Some words borrowed from Spanish, Moroccan Arabic - Grammar, Moroccan Arabic - Evolution, Moroccan Arabic - Diglossia and social prestige, Moroccan Arabic - Artistic expression

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Arab music is the music of Arabic-speaking people or countries, especially those centered around the Arabian Peninsula.The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia. Classical Arab music is extremely popular across the population, especially a small number of superstars known throughout the Arab world. Regional styles of popular music include Algerian raï, Moroccan gnawa ...

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• Arab music - Genres
• Arab music - Secular art music
• Arab music - Sacred music
• Arab music - History
• Arab music - Early years
• Arab music - The sixteenth century
• Arab music - Female slaves
• Arab music - Male instrumentalists
• Arab music - The Twentieth century
• Arab music - Source

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A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. The word historically referred to restricted housing zones where Jews were required to live; however, it now commonly labels any poverty-stricken urban area. The original ghetto was in Venice and other commercial centers of northern Italy; the corresponding German term was Judengasse, and in Moroccan Arabic mellah. ...

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• Ghetto - Jewish ghettos in Europe
• Ghetto - 13th–19th centuries
• Ghetto - Second World War
• Ghetto - South African ghettos
• Ghetto - Ghettos in the United States
• Ghetto - Ghettos in post-WWII France
• Ghetto - Ghettos in the Czech Republic
• Ghetto - Cultural life and the ghetto

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Casablanca classic (Arabic name: الدار البيضاء, transliterated ad-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ, "the white house", dar beïda in dialectal Moroccan Arabic) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 2.95 million (September 2004 census), Casablanca is Morocco's biggest city; also it is the chief port, and is thus considered the economic capital, although Morocco's official capital and seat of government is Rabat. Casablanca is located at 33°32′N 7°35′W. Including:

• Casablanca - History
• Casablanca - Before the French Protectorate
• Casablanca - French rule
• Casablanca - Since independence
• Casablanca - Notable physical landmarks
• Casablanca - Jews in Casablanca
• Casablanca - Transport
• Casablanca - Trains
• Casablanca - Coaches
• Casablanca - Planes
• Casablanca - List of main Casablanca Districts

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Culture of Morocco - Morocco is a country of multi-ethnic groups with a rich culture and civilization. Through Moroccan history, Morocco hosted many people coming from both East (Berbers, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Jews and Arabs), South (Africans) and North (Romans, Vandals, Moors and Jews). All those civilizations should have an impact on the social structure of Morocco. It conceived all forms o ...

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• Culture of Morocco - Facts and figures
• Culture of Morocco - Ethnics and languages
• Culture of Morocco - Traditional clothing
• Culture of Morocco - Cinema
• Culture of Morocco - History
• Culture of Morocco - Movies in Morocco

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Abu Hafiza (Arabic: أبو حافيزه ) is a Moroccan psychiatrist and elite member of Al Qaeda. Dr. Abu Hafiza is one of the master planners for Al Qaeda. In the Spring of 2003, while secretly traveling undetected to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Abu Hafiza recruited Al Qaeda combatants for the battles in Fallujah. He again secretly traveled undetected to Pakistan, in the fall of 2003, this time to the mountains of Waziristan, where he met Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri to propose strategies for Al Q ...

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• Abu Hafiza - Quotes

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Techniques - Utensils Weights and measures Spices and Herbs Sauces - Soups - Desserts Cheese - Pasta - Bread Other ingredients Africa - Asia - Caribbean South Asian - Latin America Middle East - The West Other cuisines... Famous chefs Kitchens - Meals Wikibooks: Cookbook Moroccan cuisine has long been considered as one of the most diversified cuisines in the world. The reason is because of the interaction of Morocco with the outside wo ...

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• Cuisine of Morocco - Influence and history
• Cuisine of Morocco - Ingredients
• Cuisine of Morocco - Use of spices
• Cuisine of Morocco - Structure of meals
• Cuisine of Morocco - Main dishes
• Cuisine of Morocco - Desserts
• Cuisine of Morocco - Drinks
• Cuisine of Morocco - Snacks and Fastfood
• Cuisine of Morocco - Moroccan food abroad
• Cuisine of Morocco - Recipe books

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An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. Many African Americans also have European and/or Native American ancestry as well. Some have Asian ancestral backgrounds too. The term tends to refer to West African ancestries; not, for example, to white or Arab African ancestry, such as Moroccan or white South African ancestry. This is so even though there is huge g ...

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• African American - Nomenclature
• African American - Current Demographics
• African American - African American history
• African American - Ethnicity
• African American - Contemporary issues
• African American - Culture
• African American - The term African American
• African American - Political overtones
• African American - Criticism of term
• African American - Who is African American?
• African American - Terms no longer in common use
• African American - Black American population
• African American - Other groups
• African American - Footnotes

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Verb Subject Object—commonly used in its abbreviated form VSO—is a term in linguistic typology. It represents one type of languages when classifying languages according to the sequence of these constitutents in neutral expressions: Ate Sam oranges. The word order roughly corresponds to the order of symbols in (non-reverse) Polish notation or the S-expressions of the Lisp programming language. Examples of languages with VSO word order include the Gaelic branch of the Celtic language family (namely Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx), related Welsh (the only VSO ...

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A national language of: Mali, Senegal (Hassaniya). International organizations: United Nations, Arab League, Organization of Islamic Conference, African Union Super Nintendo (Super Nintendo; Super Nintendo, less formally, Including:

• Arabic language - Literary and Modern Standard Arabic
• Arabic language - Arabic and Islam
• Arabic language - Classification and related languages
• Arabic language - Dialects
• Arabic language - Sounds
• Arabic language - Vowels
• Arabic language - Consonants
• Arabic language - Syllable stucture
• Arabic language - Stress
• Arabic language - Dialectal variations
• Arabic language - Grammar
• Arabic language - Writing system
• Arabic language - Calligraphy
• Arabic language - Transliteration

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The Arabic language is a Semitic language. It has many varieties. This entry looks at spoken varieties of Arabic, distinguishing them from Standard Arabic and from each other. It deals with the varieties that Arab speakers learn at home, rather than at school: Arabic is a diglossic language. Varieties of Arabic - Overview. In pre-Islamic times, Arabic had noticeable dialect distinctions - in particular between Qahtanite, Adnan, and Himyar. In modern times, the spoken languages or dialects of people througho ...

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• Varieties of Arabic - Overview
• Varieties of Arabic - General varieties
• Varieties of Arabic - Pre-Islamic or pre-Arab Expansion
• Varieties of Arabic - Post-Islamic or post-Arab Expansion
• Varieties of Arabic - Sedentary vs. Bedouin
• Varieties of Arabic - Morphological and syntactic variation
• Varieties of Arabic - Phonetic variation

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Western Sahara (EH in ISO 3166-1) is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. It is a territory of northwestern Africa, bordered by the internationally-understood boundaries of Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west. The largest city is El Aaiún (Laâyoune), which is home to a majority of the population of the territory. Western Sahara is on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Terri ...

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• Western Sahara - History
• Western Sahara - Spanish Province
• Western Sahara - Demands for Independence
• Western Sahara - The Referendum Stalls
• Western Sahara - The Baker Plan
• Western Sahara - Western Sahara today
• Western Sahara - Politics
• Western Sahara - Human Rights
• Western Sahara - Subdivisions
• Western Sahara - Geography
• Western Sahara - Economy
• Western Sahara - Exploitation debate
• Western Sahara - Demographics
• Western Sahara - The Spanish census and MINURSO
• Western Sahara - Culture

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The Kingdom of Morocco (Arabic المملكة المغربية) is a country in northwest Africa. It has a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Algeria to the east, though the Algerian border is closed, Western Sahara to the south, the Mediterranean Sea and Spain to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to its west. Morocco claims ownership of Western Sahara and has administered most of the territory since 1975. Its status is disputed, pending a United ...

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• Morocco - Name
• Morocco - History
• Morocco - Politics
• Morocco - Provinces
• Morocco - Geography
• Morocco - Economy
• Morocco - Demographics
• Morocco - Culture

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Cape Bojador or Boujdour is a headland on the northern coast of Western Sahara, just below latitude 27° North. It is also known as the "Bulging Cape", and is sometimes spelled "Cape Boujdour". The Cape's name in Arabic is "Abu Khatar", meaning "the father of danger." Cape Bojador - Historical significance. The discovery of a passable route around Cape Bojador, in 1434, by the Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes was considered a major breakthrough for European traders en route to Africa and l ...

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• Cape Bojador - Historical significance
• Cape Bojador - In modern time

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Also see: Music of Western Sahara, as well as relevant articles on culture in Mauritania. Sahrawi - Language. Sahrawis speak the Arabic dialect of Hassaniya, notoriously difficult to understand for non-Sahrawi Arab speakers. Many also see Spanish as part of their cultural legacy, since Spain colonized Western Sahara while most of North Africa was under French control. French is widely used in the Moroccan controlled parts, and the refugees' long-time presence in Fran ...

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Sahrawi, Sahrawi - The Sahrawi people, Sahrawi - Historical background, Sahrawi - Relation to the Moors, Sahrawi - Post-colonial concept of people, Sahrawi - Ethnic composition of the Sahrawi tribes, Sahrawi - Berbers and Arabs, Sahrawi - Ethnic subgroups, Sahrawi - Geographic home areas, Sahrawi - Population sizes, Sahrawi - Modern populations, Sahrawi - The refugees, Sahrawi - Other countries, Sahrawi - Political divisions, Sahrawi - Western Sahara, Sahrawi - Moroccan Sahrawis, Sahrawi - Mauritanian Sahrawis, Sahrawi - Note on Sahrawi nationalism, Sahrawi - Culture, Sahrawi - Language, Sahrawi - Religion, Sahrawi - Modernization, Sahrawi - Tribalism

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Sahrawi - Western Sahara. The Western Saharan Sahrawis have been bloodily split between their homeland and the refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, where some 165,000 refugee Sahrawis have lived in exile since being driven out of Western Sahara in 1975. This group forms the basis for the Polisario movement, which operates out of the refugee camps; they are strongly committed to an independent Western Sahara. A smaller number managed to stay behind under Moroccan control, but there has consistently been reports of dissident activity in favor of the Polisario ...

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Sahrawi, Sahrawi - The Sahrawi people, Sahrawi - Historical background, Sahrawi - Relation to the Moors, Sahrawi - Post-colonial concept of people, Sahrawi - Ethnic composition of the Sahrawi tribes, Sahrawi - Berbers and Arabs, Sahrawi - Ethnic subgroups, Sahrawi - Geographic home areas, Sahrawi - Population sizes, Sahrawi - Modern populations, Sahrawi - The refugees, Sahrawi - Other countries, Sahrawi - Political divisions, Sahrawi - Western Sahara, Sahrawi - Moroccan Sahrawis, Sahrawi - Mauritanian Sahrawis, Sahrawi - Note on Sahrawi nationalism, Sahrawi - Culture, Sahrawi - Language, Sahrawi - Religion, Sahrawi - Modernization, Sahrawi - Tribalism

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The major distinction within Tunisian Arabic is that between sedentary (mainly urban) and Bedouin -origin (rural) dialects (see Sedentary vs. Bedouin). Note that most speakers of these rural varieties are not actually nomadic. Sedentary varieties are spoken in large cities on or near the coast, such as Tunis, Bizerte, Nabeul, Hammamet, Sousse, Monastir, Mahdia, Kairouan, and Sfax, while the the rest of the country to the west and south of this coastal strip uses rural varieties, including the towns of Gabès, Gafsa, Tozeur, El Kef and Beja. Rural dialects are also found in small villages not ...

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Tunisian Arabic, Tunisian Arabic - Distinctives, Tunisian Arabic - Dialects, Tunisian Arabic - Domains of use, Tunisian Arabic - Vocabulary, Tunisian Arabic - Pronunciation, Tunisian Arabic - Morphology, Tunisian Arabic - Literature in Tunisian Arabic, Tunisian Arabic - Tunisian as a Second Language, Tunisian Arabic - Bibliography

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There are several differences in pronunciation between standard Arabic and Tunisian. Short Vowels are frequently omitted, especially where they would occur as the final element of an open syllable. This was probably encouraged by the Berber substratum. For example, kataba 'he wrote' in standard Arabic becomes ktib. katabat 'she wrote' in standard Arabic becomes kitbit. Regular verbs exhibit this shifting of the vowel in their conjugation, and it also occurs in nou ...

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Tunisian Arabic, Tunisian Arabic - Distinctives, Tunisian Arabic - Dialects, Tunisian Arabic - Domains of use, Tunisian Arabic - Vocabulary, Tunisian Arabic - Pronunciation, Tunisian Arabic - Morphology, Tunisian Arabic - Literature in Tunisian Arabic, Tunisian Arabic - Tunisian as a Second Language, Tunisian Arabic - Bibliography

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