%0 Journal Article 
%A Michalski, Marcin
%T Árabe marroquí escrito en internet: tipos de variación y niveles de regularidad


%D 2025
%@ 2660-7697
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/39576
%X For some time, Moroccan Arabic has been more and more extensively used in writing in various
areas of the Internet: whether by ordinary Internet users, more or less amateur authors of expository texts aimed at
the general public (the Wikipedia) or by journalists. Since Written Moroccan Arabic has no orthography, i.e. a
generally accepted spelling standard, variation affecting a considerable number of forms is one its conspicuous
features.
The aim of the present study is to discuss certain graphic phenomena related to writing Moroccan Arabic in
Arabic script manifesting themselves in three text genres: readers’ comments (on a major Moroccan news
platform), articles in the Moroccan Wikipedia, and journalistic texts (in a popular online newspaper). To this
purpose, a theoretical and methodological apparatus is proposed which includes, beside other notions, the concept
of variation, understood as a relation between graphic words (variants) which have the same meaning and
pronunciation but different graphies. Three basic types of variation are distinguished: (i) qualitative (the difference
between the variants consists in each of them containing a different graph – or different graphs – in the same
position), (ii) quantitative (the differentiating element is a graph present in one form and absent from the other),
and (iii) linear (the differentiating element is a space).
The results of the study show that the graphy of texts written in Moroccan Arabic on the Internet differs in
certain respects from that of printed literary texts, although some shared features can also be identified. The
analysis also reveals that the three genres under examination differ from each other in terms of the occurrence of
certain graphic phenomena, even though sometimes the differences are more a matter of frequency than clear-cut
division. Finally, the levels of stability, or regularity, of particular genres vary, sometimes contrary to initial
expectations.


%K Moroccan Arabic
%K Written Moroccan Arabic
%K Written Darija
%K Arabic graphy
%K Arabic script
%K Internet Arabic
%K Árabe marroquí
%K árabe marroquí escrito
%K dariya escrita
%K escritura árabe
%K alfabeto árabe
%K árabe en Internet
%~ Universidad de Cádiz