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About Arabic (Tunisian)
Tunisian Arabic is a Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language, spoken by some 9 million people. It usually known by its own speakers as Darija, to distinguish it from Standard Arabic, or Tunsi, which means Tunisian. It is spoken all over Tunisia, and similar varieties are found in the eastern part of Algeria and the western part of Libya. Its morphology, syntax, pronunciation and vocabulary are quite different from Standard or Classical Arabic. Tunisian Arabic is hardly intelligible to Arabic-speaking Middle Easterners (including Egyptians), but much more readily understood by other Arabic-speaking North Africans such as Algerians, Libyans and Moroccans. Tunisian is also closely related to Maltese, which is not considered to be a dialect of Arabic for sociolinguistic reasons. From "Tunisian Arabic", Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_Arabic, 12/8/06, available under the terms of the GFDL
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