Linguistic study on the Arabic and «Amazigh» names of places in Taroudant - Morocco

Abstract

Like many other Arab countries, Morocco lives what is known as a
«Language crisis». The country is constantly swinging between classical
Arabic, Amazigh, and the Darija dialect (Moroccan Arabic), on top of the
foreign languages that hold as much power. It seems that this problem
is not the result of multilingualism, but it is the result of the language
mismanagement that Morocco knows. This made us delve into the
wheels of linguistic research by doing a local language study under the
name «Linguistic study on the Arabic and Amazigh names of places in
Taroudant – Morocco». The study mainly relies on oral field narration and
the locals’ background knowledge about their homes, including the Arabs
and Amazigh.
We will study some names in linguistics: phonetically and synthetically,
and morphologically to detect Linguistic constructs in place names.