Arabic

Standard Arabic is the official language in the country which is understandable by 73% of Algerian Population, but the majority of the population speaks the dardja (Algerian Arabic) which is an Arabic dialect but also it borrows words from Tamazight, French and Turkish languages, it is  spoken by 85% of the population.

Within the Algerian Arabic itself, there are significant local dialects like the Jijel Arabic, in particular, is noteworthy for its pronunciation of qaf as kaf and its profusion of Berber loanwords, and the dialects of some ports show influence from Andalusi Arabic brought by refugees from al-Andalus. Algerian Arabic is part of the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum, and fades into Moroccan Arabic and Tunisian Arabic along the respective borders between the countries.

In the Sahara, more conservative Bedouin dialects, grouped under the name Saharan Arabic, in addition, the many Sahrawi refugees at Tindouf speaks Hassaniya Arabic.

After Algeria became independent in 1962, it tried to improve fluency by importing Arabic teachers from Egypt and Syria to teach the Standard Arabic language in schools and universities.