Judeo-Tunisian Arabic

Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
Native to	Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem District, Israel; Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia; Tunis, Tunisia; Gabes, Tunisia
Native speakers	11,000 (2011–2018)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Pre-Hilalian Arabic Judeo-Tunisian Arabic; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic script; Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ajt (retired); subsumed in aeb (Tunisian Arabic)
Glottolog	jude1263
ELP	Judeo-Tunisian Arabic

Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, also known as Judeo-Tunisian, is a variety of Tunisian Arabic mainly spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Tunisia.^[6] Speakers are older adults, and the younger generation has only a passive knowledge of the language.^[1]

The vast majority of Tunisian Jews have relocated to Israel and have shifted to Hebrew as their home language.^[3]^[7] Those in France typically use French as their primary language, while the few still left in Tunisia tend to use either French or Tunisian Arabic in their everyday lives.^[3]^[7]

Judeo-Tunisian Arabic is one of the Judeo-Arabic languages, a collection of Arabic dialects spoken by Jews living or formerly living in the Arab world.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^ (in Hebrew) Henschke, J. (1991). Hebrew elements in the Spoken Arabic of Djerba. Massorot, 5-6, 77-118.
^ ^a ^b ^c (in French) Cohen, D. (1975). Le parler arabe des Juifs de Tunis: Étude linguistique. La Haye: Mouton.
^ Sumikazu, Yoda. ""Sifflant" and "Chuintant" in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Gabes (south Tunisia)". Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik. 46: 21. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
^ Judeo-Tunisian Arabic at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
^ ^a ^b ^c (in French) Bar-Asher, M. (1996). La recherche sur les parlers judéo-arabes modernes du Maghreb: état de la question. Histoire épistémologie langage, 18(1), 167-177.
^ ^a ^b Bassiouney, R. (2009). Arabic sociolinguistics. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 104.

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

[Djerba-2] (in Hebrew) Henschke, J. (1991). Hebrew elements in the Spoken Arabic of Djerba. Massorot, 5-6, 77-118.

[cohend-3] (in French) Cohen, D. (1975). Le parler arabe des Juifs de Tunis: Étude linguistique. La Haye: Mouton.

[digizeitschriften.de-4] Sumikazu, Yoda. ""Sifflant" and "Chuintant" in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Gabes (south Tunisia)". Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik. 46: 21. Retrieved 1 May 2016.

[e23-5] Judeo-Tunisian Arabic at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)

[jasher-6] (in French) Bar-Asher, M. (1996). La recherche sur les parlers judéo-arabes modernes du Maghreb: état de la question. Histoire épistémologie langage, 18(1), 167-177.

[judeoa-7] Bassiouney, R. (2009). Arabic sociolinguistics. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 104.

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