• TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    wow I’ve never heard of a language like that in Algeria. I always assumed you all spoke a dialect of Arabic and some French.

    Darja?? I’m gonna be reading about this for the next hour. merci!

    • Grian@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Darja is technically a dialect, even if (at least from my experience) it is barely intelligible to most people from saudi Arabia and such, I often end up speaking English in such cases.

      Darja is sorta like Scots in that way tbh, basically a sister language / dialect of Arabic in a similar way to what Scots is for English.