Tunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It is known among its 12.5 million speakers as Tūnsi "Tunisian" or Derja to distinguish it from Modern Standard Arabic, t
Tunisian leader Habib Bourguiba usually delivered his speeches in Tunisian even for religious celebrations
Maltese is a Central Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic. It is the only Semitic language officially written in the Latin script. It is spoken by the Maltese people and is a na
Tunisian Arabic
…people and has not negatively affected the use of more recent French and English loanwords in Tunisian. Tunisian Arabic is also closely related to Maltese, which is a separate language that descended from Tunisian and Siculo-Arabic. Maltese and Tunisian Arabic have about 30 to 40 per cent spoken mutual…
Vassalli's Storja tas-Sultân Ċiru (1831) is an example of Maltese orthography in the 19th century, before the later standardisation introduced in 1924. Note the similarities with the various varieties of romanised Arabic.