Northwestern Algerian Arabic Oranese Arabic Oranian Arabic
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
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Glottolog
oran1236
IETF
arq-u-sd-dz31
Arabic dialect of Oran, Algeria
Western Algerian Arabic (also known as Northwestern Algerian Arabic, Oranese Arabic or Oranian Arabic; in Arabic: الوهرانية, romanized: al-wahrāniya) is a dialectal continuum of Algerian dialects 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.
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^ Le français en Algérie: lexique et dynamique des langues, Par Ambroise Queffélec, P 38 (in French)
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