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Tunisian Arabic
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Afro-Asiatic
  • Tunisian Arabic

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 , "Tunisian" or Derja "everyday language" to distinguish it from Modern Standard Arabic, the official language of Tunisia.


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  • Portrait officiel de Habib Bourguiba

    Tunisian leader Habib Bourguiba usually delivered his speeches in Tunisian even for religious celebrations

  • Marcaisl

    Phonemic transcription method of Tunisian Arabic and Algerian Arabic into Latin script used by William Marçais in 1908

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