Algerian Arabic
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Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Algeria
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Within Vinony's link graph, Algerian Arabic is referenced by 346 other articles, and connects out to Hilalian dialects, Hassaniya Arabic and Pre-Hilalian Arabic dialects.
Vinony files it under Algerian Arabic, ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue and Language articles citing Ethnologue 28.
Its subject is documented across 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- Algeria
- Region
- Central Maghreb
- Ethnicity
- Algerians , also used as a second language by other ethnic groups in Algeria
- Speakers
- L1 : 36 million (2022) , L2 : 5.7 million (2022) , Total: 42 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
- Iso 639 3
- arq
- Glottolog
- alge1239
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- natural language
- Subclass of
- Maghrebi Arabic
- Country
- Algeria
Show 11 more facts
- native label
- دريرية
- topic's main category
- Category:Algerian Arabic
- Wikimedia language code
- arq
- linguistic typology
- fusional language
- writing system
- Arabic script
- topic has template
- Template:Lang-arq
- different from
- Algerian Saharan Arabic
- P10369
- Wilhelm Grimm
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 42252851
- entry in abbreviations table
- Cez.
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Reda speaking Algerian Arabic.
Algerian Arabic (Standard Arabic: الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-dārija al-jazāʾiriyya), 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. Darja (الدارجة) means 'everyday/colloquial dialect'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Algerian Arabic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.