Western Algerian Arabic

Western Algerian
Western Algerian
Native to	Algeria
Region	Central Maghreb
Ethnicity	Algerian Arab-Berbers and Haratins
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Algerian Arabic Western Algerian; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	arq-u-sd-dz31

Western Algerian Arabic (also known as Northwestern Algerian Arabic, Oranese Arabic or Oranian Arabic; in Arabic: الوهرانية) is a dialectal continuum of Hilalian Arabic, mainly spoken in Oran, Algeria.^[1]

It the western regional dialect of Algerian Arabic, belongs to the Maghrebi Arabic family, and marked by a Berber and Spanish substrates.^[2] As well it shares a rich vocabulary common with as the Maltese and the Tunisian Arabic. It has become known outside of Algeria, notably thanks to the Algerian folk music Raï since the 1980s.

References

^ Algérie: Situation géographique et démolinguistique sur tlfq.ulaval.ca' (in French)
^ Le français en Algérie: lexique et dynamique des langues, Par Ambroise Queffélec, P 38 (in French)

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[1] Algérie: Situation géographique et démolinguistique sur tlfq.ulaval.ca' (in French)

[2] Le français en Algérie: lexique et dynamique des langues, Par Ambroise Queffélec, P 38 (in French)

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Western Algerian Arabic

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