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Moroccan Arabic is much influenced by Berber phonetics, phonology, morphology, and lexicon because Berber speakers have carried over many structural features of their native language into this variety of Arabic, to the extent that Middle East Arabic speakers can hardly communicate with Moroccans unless thet resort to the modern variety of Arabic. For this reason, Moroccan Arabic is phonologically and morphologically more distant from Classical Arabic or the Middle East colloquial varieties than it is from Berber. As a consequence of the important impact of Berber, the everyday Arabic variety spoken in Maghrebi region as a whole is linguistically distinct from that in the Middle East area, especially at the phonological and morphological levels. In case of social function of Moroccan Arabic, it plays a different role from the written variety of Arabic, and in multilingual aspect, Moroccan Arabic plays an important role in ethnic Arabization of Berbers. Ethnic Arabization is the on-going assimilation process whereby non-Arab groups such as Berbers become Arab by learning Arabic and being intergrated into the Arab-Islamic society while not necessarily losing their mother tongue.