Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
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Judeo-Tunisian Arabic | ||
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Spoken in: | Israel, Tunisia | |
Total speakers: | 45,500 | |
Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Judeo-Tunisian Arabic |
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Writing system: | Hebrew alphabet | |
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ISO 639-1: | None | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | ajt | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Judeo-Tunisian Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Tunisia. 99% of all speakers now live in Israel. Speakers are older adults and the younger generation has only a passive knowledge of the language.[1]
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- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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