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  2. Shawiya language - Wikipedia

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    Shawiya, or Shawiya Berber, also spelt Chaouïa (native form: Tacawit [θæʃæwiθ]), is a Zenati Berber language spoken in Algeria by the Shawiya people.The language's primary speech area is the Awras Mountains in Eastern Algeria and the surrounding areas, including parts of Western Tunisia, including Batna, Khenchela, Sétif, Oum El Bouaghi, Souk Ahras, Tébessa and the northern part of Biskra.

  3. Chaoui people - Wikipedia

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    Chaoui people. The Chaoui people or Shawyia (Arabic: الشاوية, Tachawit: Išawiyen) are a Berber ethnic group native to the Aurès region in northeastern Algeria. [ 2 ] They call themselves Išawiyen / Icawiyen (pronounced [iʃawijən]) and speak the Shawiya language.

  4. Languages of Algeria - Wikipedia

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    Arabic is spoken by about 81% of Algerians, [4] while Berber languages are spoken by 27%. [3][8] French, though it has no official status, is still used in media (some newspapers) and education due to Algeria's colonial history. Kabyle, with 3 million speakers, is the most spoken Berber language in the country, is taught and partially co ...

  5. Algerian Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Algerian Arabic (Arabic: الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-Dārja al-Jazairia), natively known as Dziria, Darja or Derja, 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. [2] Darja (الدارجة) means "everyday ...

  6. French language in Algeria - Wikipedia

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    In 1993, of 27.3 million people in Algeria, 49% spoke French. At the time, studies predicted that 67% of the Algerian population would speak French by 2003. [5] The Abassa Institute polled 1,400 Algerian households in April 2000 about their language use. Of them, 60% spoke and/or understood the French language.

  7. Lucien Leclerc - Wikipedia

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    Lucien Leclerc - Histoire de la médecine arabe 1876. Nicholas Lucien Leclerc (Ville-sur-Illon, 1816-Ville-sur-Illon, 1893) was a French military doctor, translator, and influential early western historian of medicine in the medieval Islamic world. [1] He was an assistant military surgeon in Algeria from 1840-1844. [2]

  8. French Algeria - Wikipedia

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    French Algeria (French: Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; [1] unofficially Algérie française, [2][3] Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France. French rule in the region began in 1830, after the ...

  9. Salem Chaker - Wikipedia

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    Salem Chaker was born in 1950 in Nevers, France. In a family from Ait Iraten tribe of Kabylia. He studied at the University of Provence, then in Paris Descartes University where he received his Doctorat de troisième cycle in 1973 and a Doctorat d'Etat in 1978. After an early career in the Faculty of Letters of Algiers and CRAPE ( Centre de ...