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- Tunisian Arabic (aeb)

Tunisian Arabic is a variety of Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Tunisia, north-eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania by about 11.2 million people. It has similiarities to Algerian Arabic and Western Libyan Arabic at the borders, and is closely realated to Maltese. It differs significantly from Modern Standard Arabic, and while its vocabulary is mainly Arabic. it has a significant substratum of Berber words, and also loanwords from French, Turkish, Italian and Spanish.

Tunisian Arabic is spoken in Tunisian homes and businesses, and is used in television programmes, films and plays, however standard Arabic is the language of education, literature and news programmes and newspapers. There is very little literature in Tunisian Arabic, and it is mainly written with the Arabic script.

Multilingualism within Tunisia and native Tunisians outside of the country makes it common for Tunisians to code-switch, mixing Tunisian with French, English, Italian, Standard Arabic or other languages in daily speech.Within some circles, Tunisian Arabic has thereby integrated new French and English words, notably in technical fields, or has replaced old French and Italian loans with standard Arabic words.

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