Languages and other Algeria Local Custom Tips

The Algerian arabic is the most spoken language in daylife, don't get surprised if you heard some french words with it, this is because this local arabic is mixed with foreign words from other langiages, mostly french words and few turkish, spanish, words .. due of the colonial history of this land. There are also some berber dialects, as kabyle in kabylie region, chaouia in the east and tergui in the deep south (touareg land).
Beside arabic, most algerians speak or undrestand french especially in the big cities, so it's not a problem, few people can speak other languages as english, or spanish in the west of the country, most young people can undrestand few english since it's studied in shcool and it became a must too as an international language..

Officially, Arabic (Fus'ha) is the official language of the country, this is the classical arabic which is studied in school and writen on posters on the streets ..etc, it's common with all arab countries and widely studied and known throughout the Islamic world.
Classical Arabic has been a literary language since at least the 6th century. During the Middle Ages Classical arabic was also a major vehicle of culture, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy, with the result that many European languages have also borrowed numerous words from it.

The Arabic Calligraphy is a beautiful art itself, it's used in the arabesque art and to decorate mosques or to write the holly quaran.

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After 130 of occupation and many political attempts to get algerian independence peacefully, the algerian people get just more killed and more suffering!! On Nov 1st, 1954 algerians guided by the FLN begin a bloody war against the French occupation to get their independence. after this war Algeria became known as the land of million and half million martyr.
If you want to watch a movie about Algerian liberation war, one of the bloodiest independence war in modern history, you have to wath this movie. it's the best!
It's about the battle of Algiers between 1957 and 1962 when the French army try to destroy and demolish the algiers of the revolution but algerians were determined to sacrify every thing to get freedom and that what made this battle so strong and bloody..
This is one of the most powerful war movies ever made in cinema history, it is real and well done, it was turned just few years after the real events, in the same places and with natural actors without experience but they played so much well their roles, I think because they lived the same events during this liberation war, one of them played his own role (Yassef Saadi).

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