Algerian Arabic

Algerian Arabic
Algerian Arabic
Darja, Derja, Dziria
الدارجة الجزائرية
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); L2: 5.7 million (2022) ; Total: 41 million (2022)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Algerian Arabic; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Western Algerian Arabic; Eastern Algerian Arabic;
Writing system	Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	arq
Glottolog	alge1239
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Reda speaking Algerian 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]

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]

^ ^a ^b ^c Algerian Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ "Algeria - Languages | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
^ Wehr, Hans (2011). A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.; Harrell, Richard S. (1966). Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic.
^ Elimam, Abdou (2009). Du Punique au Maghribi : Trajectoires d'une langue sémito-méditerranéenne (PDF). Synergies Tunisie.
^ Martin Haspelmath; Uri Tadmor (22 December 2009). Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook. Walter de Gruyter. p. 195. ISBN 978-3-11-021844-2.
^ Wexler, Paul (2012-02-01). The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-2393-7.

[e27-1] Algerian Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)

[2] "Algeria - Languages | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-04-12.

[3] Wehr, Hans (2011). A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.; Harrell, Richard S. (1966). Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic.

[Abdou_Elimam-4] Elimam, Abdou (2009). Du Punique au Maghribi : Trajectoires d'une langue sémito-méditerranéenne (PDF). Synergies Tunisie.

[HaspelmathTadmor2009-5] Martin Haspelmath; Uri Tadmor (22 December 2009). Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook. Walter de Gruyter. p. 195. ISBN 978-3-11-021844-2.

[:02-6] Wexler, Paul (2012-02-01). The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-2393-7.

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