A descriptive diachronic sutdy of the linguistic situation of algeria

Abstract

Sociolinguistics is a field that is concerned with the relationship between language and society. In fact, the history of the Algerian society is full of events and periods of invasions which impacted its speech or language. The aim of this research work is to investigate and describe the language of the Algerian community during these periods and how they impacted it and still do, and analyze all these data. Actually, the Algerian speech community is classified as a complex one because of the diversity of the system of the languages used. After the researcher studied and deepened in this topic, he could realize that all the speech contact phenomena existing nowadays such as bilingualism, diglossia, borrowing, code switching are considered to be reflection on the linguistic strategies that were used in the past. From one colonization to another, the language was changing and reformulated consciously and unconsciously, systematically and redundantly, the researcher also attempted to analyze how the impact of the French was the predominate one comparing with the other. Through the diachronic study of this research work , the reader can reach on the point that identifies the Algerian dialect as a new identity , which integrated several systems of language: Berber , Arabic and French ect….