34.1251, FYI: Webinar: French, Standard Arabic and Amazigh

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1251. Tue Apr 18 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1251, FYI: Webinar: French, Standard Arabic and Amazigh

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Date: 17-Apr-2023
From: Bert van Pinxteren [afrilang at outlook.com]
Subject: Webinar: French, Standard Arabic and Amazigh


Webinar by Dr Yamina El Kirat El Allame for the Edinburgh Circle on
the Promotion of African Languages.

The webinar is from 4 to 5:30 pm CEST (this is 10 AM New York time).
Registration not required. Zoom link via https://www.universiteitleide
n.nl/en/events/2023/04/french-standard-arabic-and-tamazigh-experiences
-and-challenges-in-morocco

Morocco is as a multilingual society where national, official and
foreign languages coexist and are used on an everyday basis. Morocco
has undergone the ‘Arabization’ process (i.e. replacing French with
Modern Standard Arabic in all the formal domains), as a symbol of
linguistic and cultural independence and has adopted Modern Standard
Arabic as the official language of the state. The Moroccan 2011 New
Constitution recognizes Amazigh (widely known as Berber), the
indigenous language of North Africa, as the second official language
of the country, besides Modern Standard Arabic, but the implementation
of Amazigh as an official language is still facing serious challenges.
The constitution also encourages the learning of foreign languages.
The present talk addresses and tries to answer the following
questions: (i) What is the state of the Arabization process in
Morocco? What is the state of the official adoption of Amazigh, its
teaching, and its standardization? What is the status of mother
tongues, official and foreign languages in Morocco, more than six
decades after its independence? What governs Moroccan language policy?
What do the educational policies in Morocco reveal about the state’s
language policy?  The presenter will try to answer these questions and
all the questions of the audience.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Moroccan (ary)
                     Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Tamajaq, Tawallammat (ttq)
                     Tamajeq, Tayart (thz)




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