Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian

YUD

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Alternate Names: Jewish Tripolitanian-Libyan Arabic, Tripolita’it, Tripolitanian Judeo-Arabic, Yudi

Dialects: None known. Not intelligible with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic ,; medium intelligibility with Judeo-Tunisian Arabic , and Judeo-Morocco Arabic ,. A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic ,.

Genealogy:

Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
Central
South
Arabic

Demographics: 30,000 in Israel (1994 H. Mutzafi). Population total all countries: 35,000.

Language Use: Mainly older adults. Also use Hebrew [heb].

Writing System: Hebrew

Nation of Origin: Israel

Other Comments: Jewish.