French
Further information: Maghreb French and African FrenchWithin Morocco, French, one of the country's two prestige languages, is often used for business, diplomacy, and government. French serves as a lingua franca. Aleya Rouchdy, author of Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic, said that "For all practical purposes, French is used as a second language."
Different figures of French speakers in Morocco are given. According to the OIF, 33% of Moroccans speak French, among them 13.5% fully francophone and 19.5% partially francophone. According to the 2004 census, nearly 69% of alphabetized people can read and write French.
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