The dialect under discussion is the one generally spoken by the Moslems of Algiers in 1830, and now spoken by members of a few old families in that city, The "grammatical text" that is analysed grammatically is written according to a system closely parallel to that of ordinary Arabic writing, In the analysis, successively larger grammatical structures are defined in terms of smaller ones, until sentences have been defined in a way that makes the sentence as grammatical structure correspond fairly closely to the utterance as a natural division of speech.