Question

This dialect has very few native speakers, but is the official language across much of the Middle East and North Africa and is used widely in literature and media. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this dialect based on Classical Arabic.
ANSWER: Modern Standard Arabic [or MSA; or Modern Written Arabic; or MWA; accept al-Fuṣḥā or al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā or Fuṣḥā al-ʻAṣr; prompt on Standard Arabic; prompt on Written Arabic]
[10e] Many speakers of Arabic engage in this practice of alternating between language varieties in a single conversation, using Modern Standard Arabic and a vernacular dialect.
ANSWER: code-switching [or code-mixing]
[10h] Modern Standard Arabic exists in diglossia with Maghrebi Arabic, which is known by this Arabic name meaning “everyday language.”
ANSWER: Dārija [or Darja or Derija or Derja; or ed-Dārija]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2121.90110%71%38%

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Brown ACornell B1010020
UC Berkeley AJohns Hopkins A010010
Duke AFlorida B10101030
McGill AYale A1010020
Michigan AMIT A1010020
Minnesota AHarvard A010010
NYU AMinnesota B010010
Penn AHouston A010010
Purdue ASouth Carolina A001010
South Carolina APurdue A1010020
Virginia AImperial A1010020
Chicago CIllinois A1010020
Ohio State AColumbia A10101030
North Carolina AChicago B1010020
Stanford ANorthwestern A10101030
WUSTL AColumbia B010010
WUSTL BUC Berkeley B010010
Florida AYale B10101030
Georgia Tech APenn State A010010
Maryland ARutgers A1010020
Texas ARutgers B010010