The
director of the Instituto Cervantes , Victor Garcia de la Concha , stressed
that the Spanish language contains about 10,000 Arabic words contained in the
dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) .
This
was highlighted during the celebration in the House of Representatives of the
Spanish-Moroccan Parliamentary Forum has addressed the ' cultural relations
within the framework of a common heritage ' .
De
la Concha has indicated that there are thousands of Arabic words in Spanish ,
while on the other hand are " hundreds " Spanish words left in
Moroccan Arabic .
The
director of the Cervantes Institute has highlighted the strong influence of
Arabic in Spanish literature , which can be seen in the mystic poet San Juan de
la Cruz , whose mother was of Moroccan descent .
De
la Concha explained that the first time you spoke Spanish in Morocco was in the
late fourteenth century, and stressed that the Spanish is spoken today "
by a large number of Moroccans " , due in part to the arrival of Moroccan
to Spain .
In
the past year were more than 13,000 Moroccans who enrolled to learn Spanish in
one of the six centers of the Instituto Cervantes in Morocco , a figure that is
registering a slight increase during 2013-2014 indicated .
By
Morocco , the president of the United House of Councillors Mohamed Cheikh
Biadillah , said that words like oil, sugar , rate or sardines are Arabs and
stressed the mutual influences between the two cultures.
