Tunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian (Arabic: تونسي, romanized: Tūnsi), is a variety of Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It is known among its 12 million speakers as Tūnsi, [ˈtuːnsi] "Tunisian" or Derja (Arabic: الدارجة; meaning "common … See more

Beginnings of the dialect
Linguistic situation of Ancient Tunisia
During classical antiquity, Tunisia's population spoke Berber languages related to the See more

Tunisian Arabic is the mother tongue of the Arabic-speaking population in Tunisia. It is also the second language of the Berber minority … See more

Non-Arabic words
The most immediately apparent difference between Tunisian and Standard Arabic is the extensive use of native, substratum words of Latin and See more

Tunisian Arabic is one of the Arabic languages within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. It is a variety of Maghrebi Arabic like Moroccan and Algerian Arabic, which are mostly unintelligible to Modern Standard or Mashriqi Arabic See more

The Arabic dialects of Tunisia belong to either pre-Hilalian or Hilalian dialectal families.
Before 1980, The pre-Hilalian group included old (Baldī) Urban dialects of Tunis, Kairouan, Sfax, Sousse, Nabeul and its region Cap … See more

Arabic script
The Arabic script used for Tunisian is largely the same as for Arabic. However, it includes additional letters to support /g/ (ڨ), /v/ (ڥ) and /p/ (پ). See more