Tunisian Arabic

Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian Arabic
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Tunisian Arabic;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

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.

References

Gibson, M. (2009). Tunis Arabic. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, 4, 563–71.
Sayahi, Lotfi (24 April 2014). Diglossia and Language Contact: Language Variation and Change in North Africa. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-86707-8.

Other websites

Tunisian Arabic Arabizi Dictionary
McNeil Tunisian Arabic Corpus
Tunisian Arabic Overview
Tunisian Arabic Swadesh list (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix)

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[gibson-1] Gibson, M. (2009). Tunis Arabic. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, 4, 563–71.

[sayahi-2] Sayahi, Lotfi (24 April 2014). Diglossia and Language Contact: Language Variation and Change in North Africa. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-86707-8.