It is spoken around the Algerian oasis of Tabelbala by about 3,000 people; its name literally means "village's language".

[4] The only published studies of Korandje based on first-hand data are Cancel (1908),[5] a 45-page article by a French lieutenant covering basic grammar and vocabulary and a couple of sample texts; Champault (1969),[6] an anthropological study containing some incidental linguistically relevant materials such as sentences and rhymes; Tilmatine (1991, 1996),[7] an article (published in German, then reworked in French) revisiting Cancel and Champault and adding about a page of new data recorded by the author; and Souag (2010a, 2010b),[8] the former arguing the case for Western Berber loans in the lexicon, the latter studying the effect of contact with Berber and Arabic on its grammar.

An earlier proposal by Nicolaï (1981),[10] based on a very limited corpus of recordings provided by Champault, suggested a smaller phoneme inventory: alongside pharyngealised consonants ṭ ḍ ṣ ẓ ṇ ḥ as well as x q, found mainly in loanwords, and a six-vowel system: a, i, u, e, o, and ə (schwa).

Subject agreement prefixes on the verb are ʕa- I; n-, you; a-, he/she/it; ya-, we; ndz-, you (plural); i-, they.

The most productive plural marker is the clitic =yu: tsəksi"goat"> tsəks=yu"goats"tsəksi > tsəks=yu"goat" {} "goats"This marker comes at the end of the "core noun phrase", the unit consisting of noun+numeral+adjective+demonstrative: ạḍṛạmountaininẓathreebya=γ=yubig=DEM=PLạḍṛạ inẓa bya=γ=yumountain three big=DEM=PL"these three big mountains"[11]Some Berber loans retain versions of their original plurals, usually with the circumfix (ts)i-...-ən, awṛəẓ"heel"> iwṛạẓən"heels"awṛəẓ > iwṛạẓən"heel" {} "heels"While the morphemes involved are clearly of Berber origin, the details of this system differ from any one attested Berber language, and this plural is extended to at least one item of Songhay origin, tsạṛə̣w "spoon" > tsiṛạwən.