Languages of Tunisia

[ajt] 500 in Tunisia (1994 H. Mutzafi).  Dialects: Tunis.  Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic 
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[arb]   Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic 
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[aeb] 9,000,000 in Tunisia (1995). Population total all countries: 9,247,800. Also spoken in Belgium, France, Germany. Alternate names: Tunisian, Tunisian Arabic, Tunisian Darija.  Dialects: Tunis, Sahil, Sfax, North-Western Tunisian, South-Western Tunisian, South-Eastern Tunisian. Close to Eastern Algerian Arabic, but clearly distinct. The Tunis dialect is used in media and in language textbooks for foreigners. Southern dialects are structurally similar to dialects in Libya.  Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic 
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[fra] 11,000 in Tunisia (1993).  Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French 
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[jbn] 26,000 in Tunisia (1998). Southeastern Tunisia on Mediterranean islands (Jerba), isolated villages south of Jerba, southern Tunisia, and Pacha, old Medina, and Bab Souika streets in Tunis (Tamezret), Tamezret village near Zeraoua and Taoujjout, south of Gabès (Tamezret). Alternate names: Nafusi, Jabal Nafusi, Tunisian Berber, Djerbi.  Dialects: Jbali-Tamezret (Duwinna), Jerba (Djerbi, Guelili).  Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Zenati, East 
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[tse]   Classification: Deaf sign language 
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[pml] Extinct. Tunisia; Dodecanese Islands west bank, Greece; Cyprus; other major Mediterranean ports. Alternate names: Petit Mauresque, Ferenghi, Sabir, 'Ajnabi, Aljamia.  Dialects: Lexicon from Italian and Provençal. An earlier version may have been a pidginized Latin. On the Barbary Coast of North Africa in 1578, its lexicon came from Spanish and Portuguese. In Algeria in the 1830s, it drew increasingly from French, and later became the nonstandard French of that area. It may also have influenced other pidgins. There is a report of a present-day variety on the Aegean Islands, used as a pidgin in the southeastern Mediterranean region, to have mainly Arabic syntax, and vocabulary which is 65% to 70% Italian, 10% Spanish, and other Catalan, French, Ladino, and Turkish words.  Classification: Pidgin, Romance based 
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[sds] Extinct. Sened and Tmagourt villages, northwest of Gabès. Southern Tunisia. Dialects: Tmagourt (Tmagurt), Sened.  Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Berber, Northern, Zenati, East 
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