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One of the many challenges of representing Arabic speech in English texts is that no formal transliteration system exists to depict the diverse and distinct colloquial varieties of spoken Arabic—the languages of everyday life in every Arabic-speaking country in the world. Modern Standard Arabic—the formal, shared, and regularly written language of governments, books, party platforms, and news reporting—is relatively more accommodating: it is transliterated here following a simplified version of the well-known International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies guidelines.1Close
For colloquial Moroccan Arabic, a primary language of research for this book, I have opted to formulate an approach that seeks to reflect the ways in which words and phrases are pronounced and expressed in day-to-day life. Admittedly, local variations and nuances abound, including long clusters of consonants, and fragments of words and sounds inspired by different varieties of Amazigh (Berber), French, and Spanish. To make Moroccan Arabic discernible, even intuitive, to the non-linguist, the idiosyncratic system adopted here avoids macrons and dashes. It indicates long vowels (also known as full or stable vowels) as “aa,” “ee,” and “uu”; double consonants are used to indicate their elongation, which even occurs at the beginning of words. The consonant ayn is marked by ʿ. I also employ an “e” to indicate a schwa sound: the ubiquitous quick “uh” often represented elsewhere by the visually unwieldy upside down, backward “e.”2Close
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