Unpublished. Chakib Ben Moussa, High Planning Commission announced this Tuesday that the results of the General Population and Housing Census (RGPH) show that a quarter of the Moroccan population (24.8) speaks Tamazight and only 1 .5% among these citizens, who know how to read and write in Tamazight, use Tifinagh.
He specified that the majority of the educated population in Morocco, aged 10 and over, can read and write in Arabic (99.2%).
As for foreign languages, according to the results of the RGPH of 2024, the percentage of people knowing how to read and write in French is 57.7%, 20.5% in English, 1.2% in Spanish and 1% in other languages. LANGUAGES.
Mr. Benmoussa, during a press conference, noted that mastery of the French and English languages is more widespread in urban areas, where the percentage reaches 64.3% and 25.2% respectively.
At the regional level, almost the entire educated population aged 10 and over masters the Arabic language, and the percentage of mastery of the French language is 47.9% in the Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceima region, 60, 1% in the Souss-Massa region, 61.39% in the Rabat – Salé-Kénitra region, and 64.0% in the Casablanca-Settat region.
As for the English language, the mastery rate fluctuates between 15.8% in the Draa-Tafilalet region and around 24% in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra (23.9%) and Casablanca-Settat (24.1%) regions. .
About nine out of ten people (91.9%) use the Moroccan dialect (96.3% in urban areas and 84.5% in rural areas), and the percentage of the population who uses the Tamazight language will reach 24.8% in 2024, with 19.9% in rural areas and 33.3 in rural areas.
According to the linguistic expressions of Amazigh, Tashelhit is used by 14.2% of the population, followed by Tamazight by 7.4%, then Tarifit by 3.2%, while Queen la Hassania is used by 0.8 % of the Moroccan population.
At the regional level, the vast majority of the population uses the Moroccan dialect, with a percentage between 98.2% in the regions of Casablanca-Settat and Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and 64.1% in the region of Draa-Tafilalet, more widespread in the region. Souss-Massa (63.2%), Guelmim-Oued Noun (48.1%), Draa-Tafilalet (25.8%) and Marrakech-Safi regions. (24.5%), and Béni Mellal-Khénifra (14.4%).
As for Tamazight, it is used by 46.2% of the population of the Draa-Tafilalet region, followed by the Beni Mellal-Khénifra region (27.4%), then Fès-Meknes (10.3%), and As for Trivet, it is used by 31.1% of the population of the Eastern region and 7.8% of the population of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region.
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