Lifestory by a Moroccan man living near the politic border between Castillejos (Morocco) and Ceuta (Spain).
CORPAFROAS is a project funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), for 2006-2011, and coordinated by Amina Mettouchi at the University of Nantes. The three research units involved in the project are: LLING (University of Nantes); LLACAN (INALCO-CNRS); LACNAD-CREAM (INALCO). Several international researchers were associated to the project as well. CorpAfroAs is the first corpus of spoken Afroasiatic languages that presents sound-indexed data, with elaborate annotations. It is also unique in that it is freely accessible, and is accompanied by software, tools, and publications that will make it easier for field linguists to contribute to CORPAFROAS, or compile their own corpus, without having to go through the complex preparatory theoretical and technical procedures that we have worked on.
Monologue in good Moroccan Arabic language, as spoken in North Morocco and Ceuta.
Moroccan Arabic is one of the mother tongues of the Moroccan population. It is also the language of communication between Arabic speaking and Berber speaking population. It is also spoken in some European countries by immigrant Moroccan communities. In this case, it deals with northern Moroccan Arabic.
Monologue by a Moroccan man about his problems to survive day by day at this difficult region.
Recording session done by the author in the speaker's cousin's house in Ceuta.
Monolingual in Moroccan Arabic.
Moroccan Arabic is the language spoken by most of the population in Northwestern Morocco.
Moroccan man from Castillejos working in Ceuta. Building worker.
Collector and annotetor with the help of Souad Alaoual, language assistant.
Annotated in Elan.