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A person speaking Tunisian Arabic. The Tunisian Arabic (تونسي) is considered a variety of Arabic – or more accurately a set of dialects.[2]Tunisian is built upon a significant phoenician, African Romance [3] [4] and Neo-Punic [5] [6] substratum, while its vocabulary is mostly derived from Arabic and a morphological corruption of French, Italian and English. [7]
Some Sicilians become French: in the 1926 Census there were 30,000 French "of foreign language" in Tunisia. [12] For example, attending free French schools, Mario Scalesi, the son of poor Sicilian emigrants, became a French speaker and in French wrote Les poèmes d’un maudit ("The poems of one damned") and was thus the first francophone poet ...
In this context, it is developing cooperation with French-speaking television, in particular Télévision Suisse Romande, which provided it with programs and welcomed trainees in its Geneva studios. [2] The same year, it broadcasts and retransmits on Mediterranean television the 1967 Mediterranean Games organized in Tunisia. During the first ...
French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1] The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de facto language.
Just 10,000 French speakers remain in Syria today. French is mostly popular in the cities of Damascus and Aleppo where the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle and l’École Française, Syria's only two French schools, are located respectively. In 2016, a new French school opened in Tartous increasing the total number to three.
French programming from France 2 continued to be aired until the end of October 1999. [3] The two channels later changed their names several times and are currently El Watania 1 and El Watania 2 since 2011. From 2008, Tunisia began preparing its transition from analogue to digital television and the definitive switch takes place on 17 September ...
Originally a French speaking congregation, now 15 - 20 nations are represented. It adheres to the Apostles Creed and the Heidelberg Catechism . It is a member, through the United Protestant Church of France , of the World Communion of Reformed Churches [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The church building underwent a large renovation in 2011.
Léon Roches, French consul general in Tunis from 1855 to 1863, was granted the palatial complex of Dar El Kamila in La Marsa as his residence in 1857. Following an agreement with Bey Muhammad VI al-Habib in December 1859, he directed the construction of a large consulate building on the western approach to the Medina of Tunis , designed by ...