Lexical differences and similarities between Moroccan dialect and Arabic

摘要

This paper describes the relationship existing between Moroccan dialect (MD) and Arabic language through a comparative study to prove that those languages have a lot in common at the lexical level. For this purpose, we used `MDED' an MD electronic lexicon containing 15000 entries that we have built in a previous work versus Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Among MDED origins (MSA, French, Spanish, Tamazight and unknown), we focused on the unknown origin in order to perform a survey comparing MDED's content with data collected from some Arabic lexicons. The survey consists of a semiautomatic evaluation showing that about 39% of words having unknown origin existing in the MDED lexicon have been derived from MSA, so that almost 86% of MD lexical content is inspired from Arabic.