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`
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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Ethnologue entry for Judeo-Tunisian Arabic

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