French

French Language is the lingua franca (working language) of Algeria, despite government efforts to remove French language, it never stopped being the lingua franca of Algeria.

French language is a part of the standard school curriculum, and is widely understood by 18 million Algerians who can write and read French which is 50% of the population, there are 111 000 people in Algeria that speak it as their native language mostly pied-noirs who stayed behind and people raised in French-speaking households.

French is the most widely studied foreign language in the country, and a majority of Algerians can understand it and speak it, though it is usually not spoken in daily life. Since independence, the government has pursued a policy of linguistic Arabization of education and bureaucracy in the country, all scientific and business university courses are still taught in French language. International Organization of the Francophonie has quoted in 2012 that Algeria has the second largest French speakers in world after France with 18 million speakers.