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Grew up in the suburbs of Paris, surrounded by people mostly born here but generally from parents who immigrated from Maghreb, that French / dialectal Arabic mi
by VeejayRampay 9y ago
Grew up in the suburbs of Paris, surrounded by people mostly born here but generally from parents who immigrated from Maghreb, that French / dialectal Arabic mix is the BEST, I just love not understanding what's going on in a sentence and suddenly "tilifoun" "pain au chocolat" pop up in there, MAGIC.
- Jugurtha 9y agoThat's interesting you like it. Speakers always make fun of it as a duct-tape language (Arabic, Berber, French, Turkish, Spanish, and Italian). Interestingly, as a student of Hebrew, Algerian is much closer to Hebrew than to Arabic MSA. Arabic suffixes a word with one or two letters for possessive, for example "House[letter that communicates subject]", whereas Hebrew and Algerian create a structure that goes like "The house of mine/his". Learning Hebrew, Arabic makes it easier for a lot of words but Algerian structure makes me "get it".