Created and put into circulation on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, in Algeria, the new 2,000 Algerian dinar DA banknotes have inscriptions in English.
Algeria: Are we heading towards a divorce with France with these new tickets issued in English?
Usually including mentions exclusively in Arabic, the Bank of Algeria decided, for the first time, to add English. This innovation concerns the new 2,000 DA ($14.22) note and the new 50-dinar coin.
Their presentation was made on November 1, the commemorative date of the 68th anniversary of the outbreak of the Algerian liberation war, before it was put into circulation on November 2.
If many are surprised by the choice of language, it should be noted that since 1964, French has never been present on Algerian banknotes.
But the fact that the Algerian Central Bank is opting for English rather than French makes a lot of sense, especially when the Paris-Algiers axis tends to get closer and especially a few weeks after the trip of a delegation led by French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in Algeria.
However, in order to see no confusion with France, an Algerian economist has also indicated that French has never been written on banknotes in Algeria”.
For this specialist, it is above all a question of “opening up to the world”. Much more than a political will, it will be said, certain observers see in it a will of Algeria to foresee, in the future, the convertibility of the dinar.
Others consider it to be Algiers first step towards the BRICS. The Algerian Central Bank has not yet given specific explanations.
Algeria, let us remember, this year introduced the teaching of English from the 3rd year of the primary cycle, in an approach that is similar to a desire to divorce French, considered as the first language. foreigner of the country.
