Languages in Algerian family life

As the primary space and primary agent of socialization, respectively, the family and women are also considered, in traditional society, to be the guardians of the reproduction of community values, including language and its sociocultural elements. The social anchoring of this perception reflects the weight of the quiet reproaches made against men who, having left to 'earn a living' elsewhere—sometimes for months, or even years—would return with habits, words, and sometimes snatches of languages other than that of the family, the village, or the region…