Using Ict To Improve Local Dialect Of Béchar

It is not surprising, therefore, that the percentage of adults living in Béchar who use Shelha as a significant language of communication with their native speakers of the dialect is decreasing. The fact also reveals that the quality of Shelha being spoken now has greatly diminished. One of the contributing factors to this diminishing in the quality of the language nowadays is the rapid loss of the number of native speakers in households – particularly older folk. After independence, there has been a great change in demographics which saw mass urbanization of the population of the region and the transformation of their households from rural village-based extended families to urban families. This phenomenon had a decimating effect on Shelha and culture as the native speaking grandparents were more often than not left behind.