Demonstratives serve as essential linguistic tools that help individuals reference and highlight specific objects or locations in their environment. According to Diessel (1999), these elements allow speakers to direct attention towards entities by considering their own relative position as well as that of the listener. The demonstrative system can differ in languages, significantly based on how speakers utilize spatial and contextual cues. Therefore, this study examines the demonstrative system of Algerian Arabic (Darija) to determine whether speakers of this dialect rely primarily on spatial distance, like in English (Diessel, 1999; Levinson, 2018), or it exhibits elements of a person-oriented system, as seen in Spanish (Cifuentes-Honrubia, 1989). I conducted an experimental design that replicates Rubio-Fernandez’s (2022) first experiment; I tested 83 native speakers of Algerian Arabic on a demonstrative selection task across different listener positions and object placements. The results indicate that demonstrative selection in Algerian Arabic is primarily based on distance since speakers tend to use proximal demonstratives for objects that are close and distal ones for objects that are farther away, which closely resembles the English system. However, the listener's position also affected the participants' choices, especially when the object was closer to the listener than to the speaker. These findings imply that while Algerian Arabic primarily follows a distance-oriented model, it also demonstrates subtle person-oriented tendencies in certain interactive contexts; this challenges the idea of the strict spatial demonstrative systems, emphasizing a more dynamic interaction between physical space and the listener's perspective in Algerian Arabic.