by Morgan Hollie, edited by Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec Morgan Hollie was a Global Studies major at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Biology and minoring in French, when she wrote this blog entry in the EUC sponsored ‘Language and Minorities in Europe’ course in the spring of 2013. Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Image Source “Maghrebi Arabic refers to the languages spoken in France by people whose family originates in the Maghreb," writes Dominique Caubet , Professor at INALCO in Paris, in a 2004 paper (reference below). In other words: it is a type of Arabic spoken in France by immigrants and their descents that are originally from a region of Africa, called Maghreb (see the following map). Rather than calling it an immigrant language, however, the famous report The Languages of France , compiled for the French government by ...