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Morocco is located at the crossroads of Africa, Europe and the Middle East. This strategic location has made Morocco open to a variety of linguistic influences by the Phoenician language, Berber language, Greek language, Arabic, Spanish, Portugal language and French. Given this complex multilingual situation related historical layers, the languages used in Morocco have mutual competed and overlapped for social, economic, cultural and political divisions. Therefore Morocco provides a rich setting for researching the conflict and tensions between languages in Morocco. Morocco has became a multicultural society since the French occupation even though this country had been called the Arabic diglossia society or bilingualism society between Arabic language and Berber language for ages long. These dynamic language change relating the historical process also provides us the affluent environment to study the hybridity of languages in Mediterranean. Therefore I expect to investigate the below issues in this thesis. The first is to give an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Morocco focusing on the post independent of Morocco. The second is the discussion of some issues related to the language policy(Arabization) pursued since independence in 1956 and the language attitudes reflecting on identity issues among Moroccan following recent changes in language policy.