THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE IN MOROCCO: SOCIOLINGUISTIC READING
Despite the efforts made towards the status of languages in Morocco, their reality reflects the lack of optimal investment of social linguistics that frame linguistic issues in terms of social phenomena, and this research, relying on some sociolinguistic tools, provides a description of the components of the linguistic scene in Morocco in terms of their social functions and legal positions, and seeks to review some aspects of the political management of these components. A desire to draw a clear picture of this scene. The research found that the country's language policy and planning have led to the status of the national languages, Arabic and Amazigh, hiding behind French, and that more societal efforts are urgently needed to rehabilitate national languages.
Keywords: Multilingualism, Language Policy, Language Market, Linguistic Status, Bilingualism.