ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the evolution of Moroccan language policy since 2000, and how this evolution has created a dynamic of change in the linguistic market. It analyses the language policy model implemented by the Moroccan state since independence. The study of language policy and planning (LPP) is a relatively recent phenomenon. However, the process of intervention into language as social practice has had a long history. The chapter examines some new categories introduced into a new agenda concerning the analysis of language policy in Morocco. It shows how a new socio-political context, which has emerged since the Arab Spring, has introduced a new power relationship between the languages used in Morocco, as seen in new language practices. The local languages are resourced, valued, and measured in accordance with the process of construction of a new language policy in Morocco. The chapter proposes a new direction for the study of LPP in Morocco, from an ethnographic sociolinguistic perspective.
