Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian
A language of Israel
| Population | 45,000 in Israel (1995 H. Mutzafi). Population total all countries: 352,500. |
| Region | Also in France, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, United States. |
| Dialects | Medium intelligibility with Judeo-Moroccan Arabic [aju] and Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic [yud], but none with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic [yhd]. A lexicon of 5,000 words in 1950 had 79% words of Arabic origin, 15% Romance loanwords, 4.4% Hebrew loanwords, 1.6% others (D. Cohen 1985:254). |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb] (Israel). |
| Language use | Mainly older adults. Also use Hebrew [heb]. |
| Language development | Bible portions: 1897–1937. |
| Writing system | Arabic script. Hebrew script, no longer in use. |
| Comments | Jewish. |
Also spoken in:
Tunisia
| Language name | Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian |
| Population | 500 in Tunisia (1994 H. Mutzafi). |
| Dialects | Tunis. |
| Language use | Most Jews in Tunisia now speak French. |
| Comments | Jewish. |
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