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Algerian Arabic
Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Algeria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Algerian Saharan Arabic.
Algerian Arabic (Arabic: الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-Dārja al-Jazairia), natively known as Dziria, Darja or Derja, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Algeria. It belongs to the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum and is mostly intelligible with the Tunisian and Moroccan dialects.[2] Darja (الدارجة) means "everyday/colloquial dialect".[3]
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Algerian Arabic | |
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Darja, Derja, Dziria | |
Native to | Algeria |
Region | Central Maghreb |
Ethnicity | Algerian Arabs, also used as a second language by other ethnic groups in Algeria |
Speakers | L1: 36 million (2022)[1] L2: 5.7 million (2022)[1] Total: 41 million (2022)[1] |
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Arabic script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | arq |
Glottolog | alge1239 |
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Like other varieties of Maghrebi Arabic, Algerian Arabic has a mostly Semitic vocabulary.[4] It contains Berber, Punic, and African Romance[5] influences and has some loanwords from French, Andalusi Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Spanish. Berber loanwords represent 8% to 9% of its vocabulary.[6]