Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian

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A language of Tunisia

ISO 639-3

ajt

Population

500 (2011 UNESCO). Total users in all countries: 45,500.

Location

Al Munastir governorate; Madanin governorate: Djerba island; Susah and Tunis governorates.

Language Status

7 (Shifting).

Classification

Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

Dialects

Tunis. A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb].

Language Use

Most Jews in Tunisia now speak French [fra] or Tunisian Spoken Arabic [aeb]. Older adults.

Language Development

NT: 1847.

Language Resources

OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian

Writing

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab]. Hebrew script [Hebr], no longer in use.

Other Comments

Jewish.

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Israel

Language nameArabic, Judeo-Tunisian

Population Full

45,000 (1995 H. Mutzafi).

Location

Jerusalem district: Beit Shemesh.

Dialects

None known. 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, 5% Hebrew loanwords, 2% others (Cohen 1985).

Status

7 (Shifting).

Language Use

Mainly older adults. Also use Hebrew [heb].

Other Comments

Non-indigenous. Jewish.

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