Algerian Arabic

Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Algeria

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

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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'.