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What Gasoline is called around the World (i.redd.it)
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[-] Grian@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Algerian here, the most common word used to talk about "gas" here is actually the french word essence, since darja(what people actually speak) is just a weird amalgamate of french, Arabic and Berber that really don't get along well.

I know this Map just took the official languages, so I don't wanna call it inacuratd, but just wanted to point this out.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

wow I've never heard of a language like that in Algeria. I always assumed you all spoke a dialect of Arabic and some French.

Darja?? I'm gonna be reading about this for the next hour. merci!

[-] Grian@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Darja is technically a dialect, even if (at least from my experience) it is barely intelligible to most people from saudi Arabia and such, I often end up speaking English in such cases.

Darja is sorta like Scots in that way tbh, basically a sister language / dialect of Arabic in a similar way to what Scots is for English.

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