The KtbDarija(Literally "WriteDarija") is a project aiming at standardizing the writing of

Darija Maghrebi Arabic (, Western Arabic; as opposed to Eastern or Mashriqi Arabic) is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb region, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Western Sahara, and Mauritania. It includes Moroccan, Alge ...

(Moroccan Arabic), to improve literacy rate and make it easier to learn for foreigners. It is double standard that support both

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and

Abjad An abjad (, ar, أبجد; also abgad) is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader. This contrasts with other alphabets, which provide graphemes for both consonants and vowels ...

alphabets. A set of keyboard layouts for writing in these alphabets have also been developed. The project was started by Moroccan AI researcher Tareq Daouda, when he was a PhD student in

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, later joined by Nassim Regragui who studied linguistics, and others. In 2010, they started a side project to translate Linux Ubuntu to Moroccan Darija, which was never completed. Members of the group were also heavily involved in the

Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free content, free multilingualism, multilingual open source wiki-based online encyclopedia open collaboration, edited and maintained by a Wikipedia community, community of volunteer editors, started on as an English Wikipedia, E ...

incubator project in its early years. Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, first page Talk

Alphabet

* A = A * B = B * Ċ = Sh (Like in Shampoo) * D = D * E = {{IPA, /ə/ or

gemination In phonetics and phonology, gemination (), or consonant lengthening (from Latin 'doubling', itself from ''gemini'' 'twins'), is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant. It is distinct from s ...

of a consonant directly followed by another one, ex : ĥdem : Work, ĥedem : Use ("literally make work")) * F = F * G = G (Like in Golf) * H = H (aspirated) * I = I * J = J * K = K * L = L * M = M * N = N * O = O/OO * Ĥ = Kh * Q = Arabic Qaf * R = R * S = S * T = T (Like in Television) * Ḫ = Ḫ (H Like in Home) * V = V * Ġ = Gh * Ĝ = Vibration of the throat (Arabic

Ayn Ayn may refer to: * Ayin or , a letter in many Semitic scripts * Ayn, Savoie, a commune of the Savoie département of France * Ghayn (Cyrillic) (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Bashkir, Kazakh, and Tajik alphabets * Ayn Rand, Russian-born American no ...

) * Ṫ = T (Like in What) * Z = Z * ' = Glottal stop

References

Languages of Morocco Orthography Moroccan Arabic Writing systems