Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian
A language of Israel
| Population | 30,000 in Israel (1994 H. Mutzafi). Population total all countries: 35,000. |
| Region | Also in Italy. |
| Alternate names | Jewish Tripolitanian-Libyan Arabic, Tripolita’it, Tripolitanian Judeo-Arabic, Yudi |
| Dialects | Not intelligible with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic [yhd]; medium intelligibility with Judeo-Tunisian Arabic [aeb] and Judeo-Morocco Arabic [aju]. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb] (Israel). |
| Language use | Mainly older adults. Also use Hebrew [heb]. |
| Writing system | Hebrew script. |
| Comments | Jewish. |
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