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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]
French Tunisia (dark blue) within other French possessions in Africa (light blue), 1913. In 1881, the conquest of Tunisia was initiated by the French Third Republic. The invasion began on 28 April 1881, and lasted until 28 October 1881. Meanwhile, the Treaty of Bardo was signed on 12 May 1881.
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 ...
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. 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]
French name Headquarters Note Francophonie: 1 Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie Paris, France The community of French-speaking nations AU: 5 (Languages of the AU) Union africaine Addis Ababa, Ethiopia French is an official language in 21 member states and a commonly used language in four others. Amnesty International
This is a list of the member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.These governments belong to an international organisation representing countries and regions where French is the first ("mother") or customary language, where a significant proportion of the population are francophones (French speakers) or where there is a notable affiliation with French culture.
The French language became an international language, the second international language alongside Latin, in the Middle Ages, "from the fourteenth century onwards".It was not by virtue of the power of the Kingdom of France: '"... until the end of the fifteenth century, the French of the chancellery spread as a political and literary language because the French court was the model of chivalric ...
La Presse de Tunisie (French, daily, state-owned) [1] Le Maghreb (daily) [1] Le Temps (daily) [1] Electronic only. AlKabar Plus; Kapitalis [1] Business News;