Language NameArabic, Tunisian Spoken
User PopulationNo known L1 speakers in Israel. Ethnic population: 10,000 (Leclerc 2018a).
LocationJerusalem district: Beit Shemesh.
DialectsJudeo-Tunisian Arabic. 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 UseShifted to Hebrew [heb].
