Sociolinguistic Variation in the Speech Community of Ain Sefra : A Comparative Lexical Analysis between El-Ksour and El-Amour Varieties

Abstract

This research work is a comparative analysis which aims at analysing the differences between the lexicon of two sociolinguistic variations co-existing in Ain Sefra, wilaya of Naama. These varieties are called after their indigenous ethnic groups: ‘El- Ksour’ and ‘El-Amour’. This research endeavours also to discover certain causes behind the linguistic preservation. In other words, it tends to marry between social factors and linguistic realities, as the similarities and the differences, the preservation and/or the alternation between some linguistic variables within the speech of the two ethnic groups.