RT journal article
T1 Árabe marroquí escrito en internet: tipos de variación y niveles de regularidad
T2 Written moroccan arabic on the internet: types of variation and levels of regularity
A1 Michalski, Marcin
K1 Moroccan Arabic
K1 Written Moroccan Arabic
K1 Written Darija
K1 Arabic graphy
K1 Arabic script
K1 Internet Arabic
K1 Árabe marroquí
K1 árabe marroquí escrito
K1 dariya escrita
K1 escritura árabe
K1 alfabeto árabe
K1 árabe en Internet
AB For some time, Moroccan Arabic has been more and more extensively used in writing in variousareas of the Internet: whether by ordinary Internet users, more or less amateur authors of expository texts aimed atthe general public (the Wikipedia) or by journalists. Since Written Moroccan Arabic has no orthography, i.e. agenerally accepted spelling standard, variation affecting a considerable number of forms is one its conspicuousfeatures.The aim of the present study is to discuss certain graphic phenomena related to writing Moroccan Arabic inArabic script manifesting themselves in three text genres: readers’ comments (on a major Moroccan newsplatform), articles in the Moroccan Wikipedia, and journalistic texts (in a popular online newspaper). To thispurpose, a theoretical and methodological apparatus is proposed which includes, beside other notions, the conceptof variation, understood as a relation between graphic words (variants) which have the same meaning andpronunciation but different graphies. Three basic types of variation are distinguished: (i) qualitative (the differencebetween the variants consists in each of them containing a different graph – or different graphs – in the sameposition), (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 incertain respects from that of printed literary texts, although some shared features can also be identified. Theanalysis also reveals that the three genres under examination differ from each other in terms of the occurrence ofcertain graphic phenomena, even though sometimes the differences are more a matter of frequency than clear-cutdivision. Finally, the levels of stability, or regularity, of particular genres vary, sometimes contrary to initialexpectations.
PB Editorial UCA
SN 2660-7697
YR 2025
FD 2025-12-22
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/39576
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/39576
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 07-nov-2026