Algerian Arabic

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Algerian Arabic (Standard Arabic: الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-dārija al-jazāʾiriyya), natively known as Dziria or Darja, 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'. Like other varieties of Maghrebi Arabic, Algerian Arabic has a mostly Semitic vocabulary. In a 2014 study transcribing a corpus of several thousand Algerian Arabic words, about 20% of them were written identically to their Modern Standard Arabic equivalents, and some 34% differed by exactly one letter. The remainder differed by more than one letter - a category that contained both Arabic-derived words and loanwords from other languages. It contains Berber, Punic, and African Romance influences and has some loanwords from French, Andalusi Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Spanish. Berber loanwords represent 8% to 9% of its vocabulary.

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