Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian

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A language of Israel

ISO 639-3
yud
Alternate Names
Jewish Tripolitanian-Libyan Arabic, Tripolita’it, Tripolitanian Judeo-Arabic, Yudi
User Population

38,000 in Israel (Leclerc 2018a). Total users in all countries: 43,000.

Location

HaMerkaz district: south of Tel Aviv.

Language Status

7 (Shifting).

Classification
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
Dialects

None known. Not intelligible with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic [yhd]; medium intelligibility with Judeo-Tunisian Arabic [aeb] and Judeo-Morocco Arabic [aju]. A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb].

Language Use

Adults only. Shifting to Hebrew [heb].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian
Writing

Hebrew script [Hebr].

Other Comments

Jewish.

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