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=== Morocco === {{See also|Standard Moroccan Amazigh}} After gaining independence from France in 1956, Morocco began a period of Arabisation through 1981, with primary and secondary school education gradually being changed to Arabic instruction, and with the aim of having administration done in Arabic, rather than French. During this time, there were riots amongst the Amazigh population, which called for the inclusion of Tamazight as an official language.<ref>{{Citation |last=Bassiouney |first=Reem |title=Language policy and politics |date=2009-08-27 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623730.003.0006 |work=Arabic Sociolinguistics |pages=219β220 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623730.003.0006 |isbn=9780748623730 |access-date=2022-12-14 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526084756/https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/28885/chapter-abstract/240549937?redirectedFrom=fulltext |url-status=live }}</ref> The 2000 Charter for Education Reform marked a change in policy, with its statement of "openness to Tamazight."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marley |first=Dawn |date=2004 |title=Language attitudes in Morocco following recent changes in language policy |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1023/B:LPOL.0000017724.16833.66 |journal=Language Policy |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=25β46 |doi=10.1023/B:LPOL.0000017724.16833.66 |s2cid=145182777 |issn=1568-4555 |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-date=26 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526084759/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:LPOL.0000017724.16833.66 |url-status=live }}</ref> Planning for a public Tamazight-language TV network began in 2006; in 2010, the Moroccan government launched [[Tamazight TV]].<ref name="Vourlias-2010a2"/> On July 29, 2011, Tamazight was added as an official language to the Moroccan constitution.<ref name="Madanin-2012">{{Cite book |url=https://constitutionnet.org/sites/default/files/the_2011_moroccan_constitution_english.pdf |title=The 2011 Moroccan constitution : a critical analysis |date=2012 |others=Mohamed Madani, Driss Maghraoui, Saloua Zerhouni |isbn=978-91-86565-66-4 |location=Stockholm, Sweden |pages=16 |oclc=858866180 |access-date=15 December 2022 |archive-date=22 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222223846/https://constitutionnet.org/sites/default/files/the_2011_moroccan_constitution_english.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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