DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i05.008

Pages: 1058-1064

This study aimed at investigating and analyzing languages used in mobile phone text messages by Algerians from the north-west of Algeria and the influence of demographic variables in language choice. A questionnaire was adopted to answer the two questions of the study. The subjects were 100 participants from three cities of the north-west of Algeria (Oran, Mostaganem and Saida). In addition, 79 SMS text messages were gathered. The data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings of the study indicate that language mixing between Arabic and French is the variety most used by Algerian texters from the north-west of Algeria, besides, in texting language choice in SMS messages varied according to the mother language of texters.