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Rabat — Morocco’s Digital Transition Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni said on Monday that the government plans to display the Tamazight language on more than 20,000 public transportation vehicles.
Seghrouchni made the statement in the parliament, indicating that her ministry is accelerating efforts to implement Tamazight’s official status across government services.
Officials will add the language script, called Tifinagh, to over 3,000 signs and markers distributed across seven government departments, with work underway on additional signage.
The ministry has identified 2,385 vehicles and carriers that provide public services or belong to public agencies. These vehicles will display Tamazight on their exteriors alongside other languages.
The government will extend this initiative to bus stations and their facilities, airports, seaports, and highways Seghrouchni said, while responding to oral questions in the House of Representatives about implementing Tamazight’s official status.
The ministry has deployed 494 staff members to guide and receive citizens who speak Tamazight. Another 72 agents now provide telephone reception services in the language at 11 call centers.
Officials have prepared 23 action plans to implement Tamazight’s official status — 19 sectoral plans and four plans for constitutional and public institutions, the minister revealed.
The government launched a pilot program in 40 local communities to activate Tamazight’s official status. Parliament now uses the language in general sessions of both chambers, and the government spokesman incorporates it into press conferences.
Morocco also supports various Amazigh cultural works across all regions of the country and promotes the publication and distribution of Amazigh books, Seghrouchni added.
The moves follow Morocco’s constitutional recognition of Tamazight as an official language alongside Arabic in the 2011 renewed constitution. The move marked a significant step in preserving and promoting the country’s indigenous Amazigh heritage.
Morocco’s Tamazight includes three major dialects. Inhabitants of the High and Anti-Atlas mountains, as well as the Souss desert regions, speak Tashelhit. In contrast, the local dialect of Tamazight is spoken by the inhabitants of the Middle Atlas. People living in the Rif region, in the north of the country, speak Tarifit.
