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Darija & AI

Does AI really understand Darija? What we learned

Arabizi, French-Darija mixing, typos: how a modern AI assistant handles your customers' real language.

· 4 min read

“Salam, bghit n3ref wach kayn livraison l Tanger?” This message is typical: Darija in Latin letters, numbers standing in for some letters, French words. A few years ago no chatbot would have understood it. Today, it's different.

What works well

  • Understanding Darija in Arabizi (Latin letters + numbers) and Arabic script.
  • Switching naturally between languages in the same conversation.
  • Replying in the customer's language, automatically.

What needs care

  • Local business vocabulary (product names, neighbourhoods, regional expressions).
  • Tone: Moroccan customers expect warmth, not a robotic answer.
  • Sensitive cases, which must always go to a human.

Our method

We test every assistant on at least 50 real customer questions, many in Darija, before go-live. And you can try it yourself: our assistant, bottom-right of this page, answers in Darija.

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