Supreme Council for Arabic keeps silent over language debate in Algeria

Algeria’s Supreme Council for Arabic remains silent over the education minister’s decision to impose dialect in primary schools. This raised questions about its role as it is supposed to be in charge of promoting Arabic language.

There is no legal justification for the Council’s position. Its Secretary General Ali Taleb Djilali had stressed the necessity of unifying school dictionaries and “purifying” them from dialectal language.

This time, the Secretary General can not express the Council’s position as the decision of imposing dialect came from the government.

The Council can not say no to an idea set by the State which appoints people and gives them their wages.

The Higher Islamic Council showed the same position to not make decision makers “angry.”

The religious affairs ministry also kept silent as the minister is part of the executive authority.

Those organizations are no more than “decoration” and do not show their positions unless they receive orders from authorities.