Hi there,
I do believe that the tunisian people is well cultivated ... the mother tangue in Tunisia is Arabic ( in fact it's more like a dialect for tunisian people ... amix of Arabic with a lot of other languages especially : French, Italian, English, Turkich, German ....) besides Arabic alsmot everybody speaks French as it's the second language in Tunisia ... as a thrid language ... it depends on the person ... some they speak english .. other italian and other german ... but i do believe that a "stranger" in tunisia won't have any communications issues ... there has to be always a language that they can use to communicate good
The Arabic language in Tunisia ( i would rather called the Tunisian Language ) is a combination of a lot of languages with Arabic as basement ... between in the Arabic you may hear a lot of french words, english words, italian, and german ... i think all this is due to the History of Tunisia ... As Tunisia was and still always an open contry and a land of meeting and civilisations ... a quick recap to the History of tunisia to see how many civilisations were in Tunisia :
*Prehistory : We generaly talk about BERBERE as autochthon, however there was 2 famous civilisations in Tunisia in the Prehistory : 1- Civilisation Iberomaurusian 2- Civilisation Captian ( it was in Capsa = now it's Gafsa).
*Old Period :
-The Pheniciens came to Tunisia from Tyr ( Sour) in Lebanon first they founded Utica (arround the 11Centry B.J.C) and then they founded Carthage ( arround 814 B.J.C).
=> The Empire of carthage Started.
- The Roman took Carthage after the 3rd Punic war arround 146 B.J.C => the Roman period started in Tunisia.
* The Medieval Period:
-The Wandal came after the destruction of Rome arround 467 A.J.C) => the Vandalsperiod started.
-The Byzantin : arround the 6th Centry A.J.C they came from Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey) and they took Tunisia as a province.=> Byzantin period started then too
-The Islam came from the Arabic peninsula and they convert the population to the Islam and they kicked the Byzantain out of the country => The Islamic period started and the arabisation of north Africa in general.
-The Ottoman took Constantinople from now on it's Istanbul ( from the Latin : Islam Police = City of Islam)
and they could get also Tunisia as a province after the expedition of :Sinen Bacha.
*The Moderne Period:
- Tunisia was under the Ottoman Empire.
- Tunisia for a period was under the Italian "imperialism" there was a lot of italian people runing business in Tunisia and even they owned lands etccc
* Contemporary Period:
- End of the 19 Centry ( 19881 ) Tunisia was colonized by France under the name of Protection.
- In 1956 Tunisia got its independance ... and started building the moderen tunisia
- In 7 November 1987 a huge changes happened in Tunisia with the new president Ben Ali who gave a new start for the country in its way to the modernity.
So Basically we had in Tunisia something like 10 Civilisations in our History ... from each one we still have till now something ... there's a lot of names forexempletill now in Tunisia they are originally from Turkey forexemple like "BouChenq" the famous singer ( it's a name from Bosnia and Herzegovina) it came to Tunisia via they Ottoman etc etc ...
We even still use words they came from the period of Carthage for exemple : we have in Tunisia 2 kind of trees:
*Trees they live from water that man gives it to them. ( we call them "Sakoui" in Arabic )
*Trees they can survive from the rain we call the "Balli"...
the word BALLI it comes from the name of theGod of Rain, Fecund and Fertile in Carthage : Baal Hammon.
=> most of the tunisian people they call those trees BALLI but they don't know that in the Past in the period of Carthage they thought that BAAL HAMMON is taking care of those trees by the rain he gave .... that's why we gave them his name .....
There's few studies done b