Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic

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Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
Spoken in: Israel
Total speakers: 35,000
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  West Semitic
   Central Semitic
    South Central Semitic
     Arabic
      Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic 
Writing system: Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: yud

Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic (also known as Tripolitanian Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Tripolitanian-Libyan Arabic, Tripolita'it, Yudi) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews formerly living in Libya. Most speakers now live in Israel and Italy. Most speakers are over 40. [1]

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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