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Opponents of French-Arabic bilingualism in Algeria argued that French was a colonialist and imperialist language. [5] A report for the High Council of Francophonie in Paris stated in 1986 that in Algeria, 150,000 people spoke French as a first language and 6.5 million spoke French as a second language.
French Algeria (French: Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; [1] unofficially Algérie française, [2] [3] Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France.
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]
French is a part of the standard school curriculum, and is widely understood (18 million Algerians can write and read French, which is 50% of the population, and the figure is higher if those who can only speak and understand it are included; Ethnologue estimates indicate that 10 200 people in Algeria speak it as their native language, mostly ...
Seeking to expand their influence beyond Algeria, the French established protectorates to the east and west of it. The French protectorate of Tunisia was established in 1881, following a swift military invasion, [3] and the French protectorate in Morocco in 1912, following a prolonged military campaign. These lasted until 1956 when both ...
Algeria has more French speakers than all but two nations — France itself and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nearly 15 million out of the country’s 44 million people speak it, according ...
A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red with the coat of arms of Jacques Soustelle in the center. The shield depicts a lion, a reference to Lyon, Soustelle's birthplace, the cross of Lorraine signifying his affiliation with Free France, seven stars representing the rank of Governor General, a crescent moon as the symbol of Algeria, and the initials J and S.
Numerous Arab and French sources unanimously agree on the tricolor Algerian flag of red, green and yellow horizontal bands, raised first by the corsair then Sultan Oruç Barbarossa, [8] [9] [10] the founder of the Regency of Algiers, a tributary state of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa from 1516 to 1830. [11]