Judeo-Tunisian Arabic

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Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
Spoken in: Israel, Tunisia
Total speakers: 45,500
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
   Central Semitic
    South Central Semitic
     Arabic
      Judeo-Tunisian Arabic 
Writing system: Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: None
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: ajt

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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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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