Abstract EN:

Tangiers, a town situated at the extreme north of Morocco, a few dozen kilometers from Europe passing through Gibraltar or Algeciras, forms, if one takes into account its strategic position, the bridge and meeting point between two ancient continents, Africa and Europe. Our research deals with Spain's presence and influence in the northern regions of Morocco, together with what remains of Castilian in the vernacular of Tangiers, our research then is strictly orientated towards linguistics. The main forms of vernacular in tangiers is of course dialectal Arabic in its differences from the national language, for it offers a mixture of words borrowed from other dialects, such as that of the Djebelas, of the Berbers and above all words borrowed from Spanish. Like other towns which have felt in their town-bred vernacular the rather strong influence of the neighbouring mountain-dwellers, Tangiers was impregnated by the language of the population of the Rif and, of course, by the Spaniards who held the town. Such influences, which account for the differences between the vernacular of Tangiers and classic Arabic, are mainly to be found in the lexical field.