A Sociolinguistic Study of Ghazaouet Speech Community

Abstract

This study deals with the main characteristics of Ghazaouet speech. The dialect is studied at different levels, such morpho-phonological, syntactic, and semantic levels. Results show that people in Ghazaouet were affected by the coming of different people of different origins. Thus, the speech differs according to gender, age, and social class. The study has ended up with the conclusion that ongoing dialect variation could potentially result in the extinction of some forms dialect itself at different linguistic levels the