Algerian Arabic

Algerian Arabic
Algerian Arabic
Darja, Derja, Dziria
Native to	Algeria
Region	Central Maghreb
Ethnicity	Algerian Arab-Berbers
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 Arabic Algerian Arabic; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Western Algerian Arabic; Eastern Algerian Arabic;
Writing system	Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	arq
Glottolog	alge1239

Algerian Arabic (Arabic: الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-Dārja al-Jazairia), natively known as Dziria, Darja or Derja, is a dialectal variety of Arabic spoken in Algeria. It belongs to the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum and is mostly intelligible with the Tunisian and Moroccan dialects.

Like other varieties of Maghrebi Arabic, Algerian Arabic has a mostly Semitic vocabulary. It contains Berber, Punic and Latin (African Romance) influences and has some loanwords from French, Andalusian Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Spanish. Algerian Arabic contains a few Berber loanwords which represent 8% to 9% of its vocabulary. The word Darja (Arabic: الدارجة) is an Arabic word meaning "everyday/colloquial dialect".

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