The challenge is to establish a Maghrebi Romance language (ideally with Mozarabic, African Romance or even Sardinian and Maltese influences though not essential) in North Africa and have it gradually supplant Maghrebi Arabic.
 
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The challenge is to establish a Maghrebi Romance language (ideally with Mozarabic, African Romance or even Sardinian and Maltese influences though not essential) in North Africa and have it gradually supplant Maghrebi Arabic.

An early POD with African Romance surviving seems...easier, tbh. But generally you'd need this challenge to have Spain to do much better in Morocco (probably at the expense of Algeria/Tunisia instead?) for starters.
 
With a PoD that allows the dominance of Arab in Maghreb (so, roughly, Morroco and Western Algeria), it's going to be particularily hard. Mozarabic speeches (essentially Old Spanish, with a strong Arabic adstrate) were on the decline since the IXth century, African Romance was essentially something spoken in Ifriqiya and extremely limited, Sardinian an archaic hold-out...(And Maltese is rebranded Siculo-Arab, but that's a detail).

As you don't have the social basis for a widespread and growing use of Romance (or any language which is not Arab, actually), it requires some political takeover. Latin conquest of Maghreb is probably of no use, at least not until very long term, since the usual policy was to "live and let live" with Muslims communities in Latin States (and would even be more so in Africa which only had a tiny Christian community, essentially entierly present in modern Tunisia)

Your best chance would be a colonial power pulling a French Algeria on steroids, and it would probably be regionalized enough.
 
Maybe if the romans go beyond the Atlas mountains you could get much more romanized berbers.
After the arab invasion you could have a different Darija, maghrebi dialect. Darija is mainly a mix of berber and arabic. With the above PoD it would add latin to it.
 
Maybe if the romans go beyond the Atlas mountains you could get much more romanized berbers.
There's little doubt Berbers were relatively importantly Romanized (as for litterally every people on the Roman border, safe in Asia, Roman political/cultural influence was decisive into ethnogenesis and identity build-up) and integrated within provincial make-up (some could say it was more the case than with European Barbarians). Berbers went quite close forming a Romano-Barbarian entity (altough possibly more or less confederal) as it was witnessed in western Europe.

On this regard, Justinian reconquest was a radical rupture as it was made as much against Berbers than Vandals, and sanctuarized a more important differenciation (altough less so in the western-southern peoples).
One could propose a TL where Berbers manage to achieve their takeover of post-Imperial Africa, and eventually pulling a Merovingian-like unification of it, ending up with a Romano-Berber culture speaking, at least partially, a Romance language, which would include the coastal and inner regions of Mauretania (coverted by the Aures confederation IOTL)

That said, it would obviously ask a PoD predating what the OP asks for, as it's about a Romance language gradually supplanting Arab, therefore asking for a PoD not before the VIIIth century.

After the arab invasion you could have a different Darija, maghrebi dialect. Darija is mainly a mix of berber and arabic.
IOTL, you did have some relevant influence of Vulgar Latin, with some loanwords (not unlike Latin onto Anglo-Saxon). The problem being that Arabs essentially settled the coastal areas were Romance was essentially spoken (and survived until the XIth century), not only disallowing much geographic isolates (except places as Djerba) but essentially located in Ifriqiya, not Maghreb (where it was even more coastal, and even more tiny)
 
I think a French Algeria on steroids is your best shot at this. There was a thread we had a few months ago which showed migration and birth rates from Italy as being pretty spectacular during the 19th Century. If you delay France's demographic transition - perhaps via no Revolution - you can get some pretty substantial migration. Plus a conservative authoritarian regime may take an approach to the region similar to German-rule in Posen.
 
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