Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian

A language of Tunisia

ISO 639: ajt
Alternate Names: Djerbian Arabic
Population: 500 in Tunisia (2011 UNESCO). Total users in all countries: 10,500.
Location:: Al Munastir governorate; Madanin governorate: Djerba island; Susah and Tunis governorates.
Language Status: 8a (Moribund).
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
Dialects: Tunis. A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb].
Language Use: Older adults only. Many shifted to French [fra]. Many shifted to Tunisian Spoken Arabic [aeb].
Language Development: Dictionary. Grammar. Texts. NT: 1847.
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Judeo-Tunisian
Writing: Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab]. Hebrew script [Hebr], no longer in use.
Other Comments: Jewish.

Israel

Location: Jerusalem district: Beit Shemesh.
Dialects: None known. Medium intelligibility with Judeo-Moroccan Arabic [aju] and Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic [yud], but none with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic [yhd]. A lexicon of 5,000 words in 1950 had 79% words of Arabic origin, 15% Romance loanwords, 5% Hebrew loanwords, 2% others (Cohen 1985).
Language Status: 7 (Shifting)
Other Comments: Non-indigenous. Jewish.

Location: Al Munastir governorate; Madanin governorate: Djerba island; Susah and Tunis governorates.