Amazigh Language – A thousand Moroccan associations addressed a memorandum against “discrimination”

Excerpts of the memorandum:

After much noticed and illustrated delay since 2011 in the effective implementation of the official status of the Amazigh language, the memorandum expressed several requirements:

• End the  discrimination  between the two official languages, Arabic and Amazigh.

• Moroccans benefit from the scientific, literary, artistic and philosophical contribution of the Amazigh language by institutionalizing it.

• Provide the conditions necessary to make a choke point in the performance of professional duties (Amazigh argument …).

• Include Amazigh in all sectors of public life (education, media …).

• Make an inseparable Amazigh system of cultural values ​​of justice, equality and dignity (lever to the success of the transition to democracy …).

The rapid and adequate solutions for the implementation of the memorandum, as noted:

• Give priority in organic laws to implement its official language status.

• Recognize that the Amazigh language and the Arabic language are equal in all institutions of the state and different spheres of public life.

• Strengthening official bilingualism in the various sectors and areas of public life.

• Benefit the Arab and Amazigh languages ​​to the same financial and human resources in all sectors.

• Create institutions to support the implementation of the steps of the organic laws for the Amazigh in the different government departments and sectors.

• Strengthen educational and didactic achievements and standardize the Amazigh language transcribing the alphabet in its original form “Tifinagh”.