and French. The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN) stated "official attitudes towards both Berber and French have been largely negative" and "The Algerian authorities have even at times rejected use of the very word “Berber”, either on the secular grounds that the term undermines national unity, or on the religious grounds that it is a term hostile to Identity and prefer to call it Tamazight another name for Berber." Berber and French are the two languages commonly used in the Kabylie region. The Berber languages/dialects spoken in Algeria include: In the north Kabyle, about 5 million speakers mostly in Kabylie and surrounded regions, due to Kabyle migration outside of the Kabyle region in Algeria and Europe, some estimates are as high as 8 million. Shawiya (also called Tachawit, Chawi) in the Aurès, maybe 2 million speakers. Shenwa, in the Dahra region, particularly of Jebel Chenoua in Algeria, just west of Algiers near Tipaza province and Cherchell and the Chlef., estimated 56,300 speakers. Two main dialects: Beni Menacer, west and south of Mount Chenoua area, in Mount Chenoua area, 55,250 speakers. The Tamazight of Blida, traditionally spoken in the wilaya of Blida . The Matmata dialect, spoken in some villages of the Ouarsenis region. In the extreme northwest Beni Snous and Beni Said, dialects of Berber spoken in various villages of the wilaya of Tlemcen. In the Sahara Mozabite (Tumẓabt) in the M'zab language of Touat-Gourara (called "Taznatit" by the Ethnologue, but that name is used for most of the Zenati languages) language of Touggourt and Temacine Tamahaq, among the Tuareg of the Hoggar (see Tuareg languages) French The CIA World Factbook states that French is a lingua franca of Algeria. The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN) states "In reality, French is the lingua franca of Algeria", and that despite government efforts to remove French, it has never ceased being the lingua franca. Algeria is the second largest Francophone country in the world in terms of speakers. In 2008, 11.2 million Algerians (33%) could read and write in French. The 1963 and 1976 constitutions do not mention Berber and French. The PCGN stated "official attitudes towards both Berber and French have been largely negative". French and Berber are the two languages commonly used in the Kabylie region. French is a part of the standard school curriculum, and is widely understood (18