Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian, is a set of dialects of Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It is known among its over 11 million speakers Tounsi ,[1] "Tunisian"[2] or Derja "everyday language" to distinguish it from Modern Standard Arabic, the official language of Tunisia.
| Tunisian Arabic | |
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| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
Tunisian Arabic Media
A Tunisian person from the town of Téboursouk speaking Tunisian Arabic
Geographic distribution of Tunisian Arabic as of 1960 (in blue). The fields in dark blue and light blue were respectively the geographic dispositions of Algerian and Libyan Arabic
Tunisian leader Habib Bourguiba usually delivered his speeches in Tunisian even for religious celebrations
Geographic disposition of the Tunisian Arabic dialects as of 2015.}} Sfax dialect Northwestern Tunisian Southwestern Tunisian Southeastern Tunisian
Logo of the United States Peace Corps.
References
- ↑ Gibson, M. (2009). Tunis Arabic. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, 4, 563–71.
- ↑ Sayahi, Lotfi. Diglossia and Language Contact: Language Variation and Change in North Africa (24 April 2014)Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-86707-8.
Other websites
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Tunisian Arabic edition. |
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Tunisian Arabic test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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Tunisian Arabic test of Wiktionary at Wikimedia Incubator |
- Tunisian Arabic Arabizi Dictionary
- McNeil Tunisian Arabic Corpus Archived 2011-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Tunisian Arabic Overview
- Tunisian Arabic Swadesh list (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix)
