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Hello / Ɛasslema

I saw your post about Tunisian wikipedia entries and if you are interested we could further work on more article written following the STUNdard method. I believe it is the most flexible and accessible one to transcribe Tunisian. Let me know what you think and keep up the good work.

Choft elpost mteɛek ɛala Elwikipedia Ettounsiya w'ken tħeb ennajmou nekhdmou incubateur bettounsi bel méthode STUNdard. Ħasb ma nra ashel méthode bech elweħed tekteb bettounsi. Aɛtini rayek w'yaɛtik essaħa ɛal khedma mteɛek.

E3 (talk) 00:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tnajjem tagħmel tʾalla houni ?

--GeekEmad (talk) 21:29, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, just a quick note to say I've adjusted the formatting on your submission page - the bot should pick those peer reviews up now (it would have removed your points that you manually added to the table when it did the next update without that). Miyagawa (talk) 19:55, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Tunisian Baccalaureate at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! George Ho (talk) 08:26, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Bumblebee, a level-4 vital article, to Good Article;
• AHeneen (submissions) worked-up the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 article, also to Good Article status;
• Rodw (submissions) developed an extremely timely article to Good Article, taking Magna Carta there some 800 years after it was first sealed;
• And last but not least, Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) worked up a number of Featured Pictures during round 1, including the 1948 one Deutsche Mark (pictured right), receiving the maximum bonus due to the number of Wikis that the related article appears in.

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

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Thankyou for your input at the peer review. Irataba is now at FAC. Cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Csisc, I unfortunately had to remove two of your PRs from the Wikicup, Wikipedia:Peer review/Taj Mahal/archive2 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Stephen V. Cameron/archive1, because they fell well below the required 1000 bytes as described in the scoring rules. Good luck as you continue in the competition. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 23:13, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alas, I had to remove two more submissions, for the same reason: Wikipedia:Peer review/1877 Wimbledon Championship/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Fall of the Western Roman Empire/archive1. Please make sure your PRs are long enough before you submit them; that would make all of our lives easier. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:27, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Irataba/archive1 would be really valuable at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irataba/archive2. The peer review is closed so the comments won't be seen unless you add them to FAC. Thanks, EChastain (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On 12 April 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The World Is Bardo, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in March 2015, thousands of Tunisians marched in Tunis with the chant, "Tunisia is free! Terrorism out!"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The World Is Bardo. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Harrias ^talk 08:03, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Anatomy! We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of anatomy articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are involved in editing anatomy articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing wikipedia articles are:

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• We try and use a standard way of arranging the content in each article. That layout is here. These headings let us have a standard way of presenting the information in anatomical articles, indicate what information may have been forgotten, and save angst when trying to decide how to organise an article. That said, this might not suit every article. If in doubt, be bold!
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The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

• Coemgenus (submissions) was one of several users who worked on improving Ulysses S. Grant. Remember, you do not need to work on an article on your own - as long as each person has completed significant work on the article during 2015, multiple competitors can claim the same article.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) took Dragonfly to Good Article for a 3x bonus - and if that wasn't enough, they also took Damselfly there as well for a 2x bonus.
• LeftAire (submissions) worked up Alexander Hamilton to Good Article for the maximum bonus. Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States and is a level 4 vital article.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 17:01, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your suggestions on improving the 1967 Intercontinental Cup article. I've added a summary of your main points on the article's Talk Page and added a link to the Peer Review page. I don't have the information to hand at the moment to address these points, but if I come across further information in future then I shall do so. Hopefully other editors will also be able to help. ShugSty (talk) 12:24, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Csisc, you attempted to add an entry for this article on the WP:GAN page. Unfortunately, this is not the proper way to nominate an article, and the Bot that takes care of the page removed your entry during its next pass.

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Hello, I deleted the information about wḥūd because it is not something special in Tunis dialect, it's actually the common plural of wāḥid. I think wḥīd is used in Sfax, so you can add it to the Sfax dialect section. For the pronunciation of e, it's also the common pronunciation of /a/ in a stressed syllable, and nothing surprising about it. Thanks. GeekEmad (talk) 14:45, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In Sahil and other regions, they don't pronounce /i:/ as [E:], but they pronounce it as [e:], same for /u:/ > [o:]. This is actually mentioned in one of Salah MEJRI's papers. And it's the same case for Lybian and Lebanese. GeekEmad (talk) 14:55, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What about adding a small section about old cartoons from the 80ths in Tunisian Arabic? I found three: qaṛnīṭ il-šalwāš, naqqāṛ il-zahwānī, mufattiš kaɛbuṛa. GeekEmad (talk) 15:24, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the message. I'm afraid that this isn't a topic I know anything about; time constraints, in addition to other on-wiki commitments, mean that this is not something I'll be able to review. Sorry! Josh Milburn (talk) 22:37, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the steps you have taken toward the documentation of the Tunisian language, has helped me (and probably others) to better understand our language. With such a level of information this Wikipedia article can have some really big effects on the long term to promote Tunisian culture. In a way you did a major service to the country, so thank you and hope you keep up ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tounsimentounes (talk • contribs) 14:06, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You've asked for a reference for "jabur" in phoenician, http://www.canaanite.org/dictionary/index.php?a=term&d=18&t=396 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tounsimentounes (talk • contribs) 10:44, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

1. Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
2. Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
3. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
4. Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
5. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
6. Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
7. Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
8. Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Tunisian Arabic you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cerebellum -- Cerebellum (talk) 01:40, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article Tunisian Arabic you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Tunisian Arabic for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Cerebellum -- Cerebellum (talk) 00:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For your previous work at Wikipedia:Peer review. Happy editing, Ugog Nizdast (talk) 17:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On 9 October 2015, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which you recently nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 17:15, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2015 is now in the books! Congrats to our finalists and winners, and to everyone who took part in this year's competition.

This year's results were an exact replica of last year's competition. For the second year in a row, the 2015 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points). All of his points were earned for an impressive 253 featured pictures and their associated bonus points (5060 and 1695, respectively). His entries constituted scans of currency from all over the world and scans of medallions awarded to participants of the U.S. Space program. Cwmhiraeth (submissions) came in second place; she earned by far the most bonus points (4082), for 4 featured articles, 15 good articles, and 147 DYKs, mostly about in her field of expertise, natural science. Cas Liber (submissions), a finalist every year since 2010, came in third, with 2379 points.

Our newcomer award, presented to the best-performing new competitor in the WikiCup, goes to Rationalobserver (submissions). Everyone should be very proud of the work they accomplished. We will announce our other award winners soon.

A full list of our award winners are:

• Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 330 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 160 did you knows in the final round (310 in all rounds).
• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for 26 featured articles in all rounds.
• West Virginian (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Calvin999 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Rationalobserver (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Harrias (submissions) wins a final 8 prize and the FL prize for 11 featured lists.
• Rodw (submissions) wins the most prizes: a final 8 prize, the GA prize for 41 good articles, and the topic prize for a 13-article good topic and an 8-article featured topic, both in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for the most news articles in round 3.

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Hi! Thanks for your kind message on my talk page. I've had a look at how the article has developed, and I'm very impressed by what you and others have done to improve it - and that most of it (I think) has been done by Tunisians. There are a few places where I think some corrections could be made (sometimes English, sometimes linguistics - not really on the Tounsi, obviously!) and I may go through and edit, but I can't promise much. If and when I do that I'll probably go ahead and edit, and if the edits prove contentious, I'm happy to discuss/ be corrected. I hope that's OK. Drmaik (talk) 20:36, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Mayabazar has become a FA! Thanks for your participation at the peer review! Pavanjandhyala (talk) 02:58, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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What is غرّيم محبوب in Tunisian Arabic? Is it really a sort of tuber (a special mushroom growing underground)? If it is, then which species exactly? HOTmag (talk) 03:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: Of course, ghrayem is a kind of mushrooms that grows underground. The word is only used in Southeastern Tunisian. Unfortunately, there are limited literature about this variety. That is why you will not find any literature proving that. As for ma7boub, it means "in grains" or pulverized in the same variety of Tunisian. I am working about a Conventional Orthography for Maghrebi Arabic and I think that using it for creating a Tunisian wiktionary will successfully solve such problems. --Csisc (talk) 08:11, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Y3ayshek.

1. Do you speak Southeastern Tunisian fluently? Is the term غرّيم محبوب used also in Sfax (mentioned on your userpage)? The variety of Sfax is somewhat different from the southeastern variety, isn't it?
2. As for the meaning of محبوب , I'm pretty shocked: I was sure it meant: "beloved" - or something like that. Does Southeastern Tunisian have the root ح ب ب , meaning: "to pulverize"?
3. As for the meaning of غرّيم , I'm again shocked, because I thought it meant: a sort of edible leaves, as opposed to غرّيم محبوب - being a sort of mushroom (of tuber).
4. As for the very word غرّيم , you've transcribed it as 'ghrayem". Isn't there a shadda above the R? How would you spell it in Arabic Orthography? I thought it's pronounced gharrim, isn't it? Anyways, I think it derives from Berber.
5. Have you ever seen غرّيم محبوب (or غرّيم)? I would like to see its photo, maybe this may help me identify what kind of mushroom (of tuber) it is. I need its exact English name. The term "Mushroon" (or even "tuber") is too general.

As for a Conventional Orthography for Maghrebi Arabic: I think the main problem is there being many consonants which are absent in Classical Arabic (e.g. two kinds of Z, two kinds of R, two kinds of B, and the like). Additionally, it has some vowels absent in Classical Arabic.

Bislama. HOTmag (talk) 09:00, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: A Shaddah exist on Gharrim. It was just a fault. This word is specific to Southeastern Tunisian. Ma7boub in Southeastern dialect is m7abbeb in the other dialects. It is derived from 7eb meaning a grain. I have never seen it before. But, gharrim means a mushroom. But, I can find it for you. As for the orthography, I have seen the problem of vowels and I have written a paper about it that was accepted in LREC 2016... I am still working on it... I think that it will be efficient for us in creating the Tunisian Arabic Wiktionary... But, we still need opinions and proposals to let it more perfect. --Csisc (talk) 09:50, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, when you wrote "I can find it for you", did you misspell it and mean: "I can't find it for you"? Additionally, do you mean that غرّيم means mushroom as - a general term - rather than a specific species of mushroom? Bislama. HOTmag (talk) 15:45, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: I am sorry for replying you very late. It is due to personal matters. I have made a search in the corpuses about Southeastern dialect and mainly the one of Marçais and Guiga. I found the word cited in limited times. I made a search in Social Networks and I found the word four times. In the examples I have found, غرّيم is rather a general term. It simply means mushroom. I asked several linguists about its meaning, they had not given a precise definition of it as studies about this dialect did not provide any definition of غرّيم. However, they have recognized that the term is general. The ethymology of غرّيم is not known and that is why scientists did not give a definition for it. However, in the examples I have, the most recognized definition is mushroom. You can verify the definition of غرّيم by asking a native speaker of Southeastern dialect about it in the Social Networks. --Csisc (talk) 08:37, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How do you say mushroom (or truffle) in the dialect of Sfaqes? HOTmag (talk) 10:17, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: Nowadays, we use French Champignon to denote mushrooms. However, the Tunisian Arabic word is فقاع and it is used in Tunis, Sahil, Sfax, Northwestern and Southwestern dialects. --Csisc (talk) 10:28, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that's interesting, because the word فقاع in Classical Arabic - has a quite different meaning: i.e. in the pathological sense, whereas its botanical sense - exists in other Semitic languages only (in fact: Western Semitic) - meaning tuber (in the wider sense), so I wonder if this is a linguistic evidence about a connection between Tunisian Arabic (or maybe even Maghrebi Arabic) and Western Semitic.

Regarding غرّيم : I'm quite sure it's of a Berber origin (the consonant cluster غر is highly common in Berber. Most of the Tunisian words - containing the consonant cluster غر - are of a Berber origin, unless they exist in Classical Arabic as well).

How about truffle? Do you know of any Tunisian dialect that uses a word other than the classical كمأة ? HOTmag (talk) 13:58, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: Truffle is also called فقاع in Tunisian Arabic. However, I don't think that its use is due to a Western Semitic substratum as Yemeni Arabic as well as many other Arabic dialects from Arabia that were not in contact with Western Semitic use فقع as a tuber. As for غرّيم, it is sure that it is a plant or mushroom. So, if a native speaker had said to you that it is a tuber, just consider this information as accurate. --Csisc (talk) 11:39, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Y3ayshek. HOTmag (talk) 23:41, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I was just trying to organize the consonant phonemes table because it's outdated and so unorganized and hard to read or compare to other Arabic dialects. it's the same table just more organized and looks more like every other consonant phonemes table on wikipedia :) عربي-٣١ (talk) 22:33, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@عربي-٣١: I thank you for your answer. However, we used the characters written in Italics to transcribe texts in Latin Script. So, if you drop them, it will be difficult to understand what is written all over the work about Tunisian Arabic and Tunisian Arabic morphology. --Csisc (talk) 10:05, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Csisc: I think you can use my more organized table and add the Latin script letters, even though i don't see why Tunisian-Arabic would be written in this latin alphabet it's useless! but the table as it is, is so messed up and i don't think it makes anybody more interested in Tunisian-Arabic instead they'll find it so complicated and messed up in case of phonemes. عربي-٣١ (talk) 14:25, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@عربي-٣١: The work is also written for interested people who do not know the common Arabic Script. If you want it, you can use your more organized table. However, you should not drop the Latin script letters from it. Thank you. Have a nice day. --Csisc (talk) 14:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Csisc: ok i will do it, and i wanted to ask are ق /q/ and ڨ‎ /g/ really distinctive phonemes in Tunisian?, i mean can you give me two native words (minimal pair) where ق /q/ and ڨ‎ /g/ contrast? cause for example in my native dialect which is Hejazi Arabic we use [q] for fewwwww words instead of /g/ but it always corresponds to the same phoneme /q/~/g/ و شكرًا برشا :). عربي-٣١ (talk) 14:38, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@عربي-٣١: q and g are two distinct phonemes. This has been proved in Baccouche, T. (1972). Le phoneme'g'dans les parlers arabes citadins de Tunisie. Revue tunisienne de sciences sociales, 9(30-31), 103-137. However, you have dropped the Latin Letters. Please write them in the table. --Csisc (talk) 14:44, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Csisc: I made the changes :), I know but at the same time in the article it says "Tunisian Arabic qāf has both [q] and [ɡ] as reflexes in both sedentary and nomadic varieties, with [q] predominating in sedentary varieties and [ɡ] in nomadics ones" so it's the same phoneme with two different allophones and sometimes even articles by linguists can be wrong or even get influence by other dialects like for example /q/ is considered a different phoneme in Egyptian Arabic because historical /q/ merged with /ʔ/ not /g/ and historical /d͡ʒ~ɟ/ became /g/. عربي-٣١ (talk) 15:00, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@عربي-٣١: I thank you for your edits and answers. Baccouche was not wrong. He has seen how nomadic [g] is spoken in sedentary regions. He discovered that it is substituted by [q] in most of the situations. However, it is kept as [g] in some situations like in Bagra meaning cow. He concluded that [g] and [q] are different phonemes. If this fact is not explained in the work as I have explained to you now, please adjust it soon. --Csisc (talk) 15:10, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Csisc: well you're explaining the sounds but a phoneme means more like a unit in the language that can differentiate two words in the case of Hejazi the [q] sound is used in Standard or more Classical words (under the influence of Modern Standard Arabic) and some new younger generations are using it in a bit of more words but if you noticed the speech of old people you will notice only [g] which makes both of them two sides of one coin (two sounds of one phoneme) like i would pronounce ثقافة mostly as [θa'qaːfa] but even [θa'gaːfa] wouldn't sound wrong and both can be transcribed as /θa'gaːfa/ since in most Hejazi words like 99% i think we pronounce ق like /g/ and not [q], i guess in Tunisian you use more [q] than [g] if i'm not wrong. عربي-٣١ (talk) 15:41, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@عربي-٣١: I haven't read Baccouche's article, but he/she is definitely right: /q/ and /g/ are really two distinct phonemes in Tunisian Arabic. Two examples have just come to my mind, for proving this:

• The southeastern Tunisian dielect (and maybe the other Tunisian dialects as well), has both the word "qedd" - as a noun meaning "a size", and the word "gedd" - as a verb meaning "can".
• The southeastern Tunisian dielect (and maybe the other Tunisian dialects as well), has both the word "qerr" - as a verb meaning "confess / admit", and the word "gerr" - as a verb meaning "nag" (i.e. behave like a nagger).

There are many other examples. The reason for this (interesting) phenomenon, is the fact that Tunisian Arabic is influenced - both by Arabic - and by Berber which has /q/ and /g/ as two distinct phonemes. By the way, Tunisian Arabic is also influenced by some European languages (mainly French and Italian) having the consonant /g/, e.g. in the word "sigourou" meaning "certainly", and it's impossible to claim that "sigourou" can be replaced by "siqourou", because this word is derived from Italian - which does not have the consonant /q/.

Hope this helps. HOTmag (talk) 20:34, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: I thank you for your answer. You have explained the current issue very well. You have made it easier to convince عربي-٣١. Yours Sincerely, --Csisc (talk) 15:01, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How about the Sfaxi dialect? Does it have the words I've given? HOTmag (talk) 15:23, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: The example of gedd exists in Sfax Dialect. However, I have added to Tunisian Arabic a more common example that exists in all varieties of Tunisian that is qarn and garn. qarn means century... garn means Horn... --Csisc (talk) 15:44, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Do the Sfaxians say "qedd" or "qadr" - for "size"?

Do the sfaxians know the word "sigourou" (meaning "certainly")?

As far as I know, the sedentary southeastern dialect - never uses "garn". The word "qarn" is used for both "horn" and "century". HOTmag (talk) 08:32, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: gedd is the one that is used in Sfax Dialect. Sfax dialect does not use sigourou to mean certainly. As for the example of qarn and garn, Southeastern dialect pronounces [q] as [g] and that is why garn is used for both horn and century. However, qarn means "century" and garn means "horn" in the regions that pronounce [q] and [g]. You can see the cited reference to verify that. However, your example about qadd and gadd is not applicable for Tunis dialect that uses "qedd" for both meanings that you have mentioned. Tunis dialect also uses "qerr" for both meanings that you have mentioned. Another example that can be cited to prove that [q] and [g] is two distinct phonemes and that is existing in all varieties is the one of "qaṭṭaɛ" meaning cut and "gaṭṭaɛ" meaning flee. However, I cannot find a relevant reference for that example. I thank you for your answer. Yours Sincerely, --Csisc (talk) 13:48, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1. As for qedd/gedd: to sum up: Sfax dialect uses "gedd" for both meanings. Tunis dielact uses "qedd" for both meanings. The southeastern dialect uses, "qedd" - for size, and "gedd" - for can.
2. As for sigourou: Ok, I see, but how about "gaṛanṭi" (from Italian)? Does Sfax dialect uses it - for excellent, as the southeastern dialect does?
3. I didn't understand your comment about "garn/qarn" in the southeastern dialect. Please notice that I was talking about the sedentary southeastern dialect - which does make a clear distinction between /q/ and /g/. I've just pointed out that this dialect never uses "garn". The word "qarn" is used for both "horn" and "century".
4. As for "gaṭṭaɛ": As far as I know, the southeastern dialect does not have that word for flee, and uses "hṛaḅ" instead.

HOTmag (talk) 16:53, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: Sfax dialect uses gaṛanṭi. As for the example of southeastern dialect, [q] is never pronounced. Even if some linguists write it as qaf, it is pronounced as a [g]. So, qarn becomes garn in Southeastern dialect and is transliterated as qarn in your used reference. However, in the dialects that differentiate between [g] and [q] that are Tunis, Sahil and Sfax dialects, "garn" is horn "qarn" is century. As for the example of gedd and qadd, your information is accurate. As for gaṭṭaɛ, it is used as flee in an informal situation. hrab is just used in formal situations. --Csisc (talk) 17:14, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think you contradict yourself: On one hand, you claim that my information about gedd and qedd is accurate - so you agree that the [sedentary] southeastern dialect uses "qedd" for size and "gedd" for can, but on the other hand you claim that "[q] is never pronounced" in the southeastern dialect. Don't you see the contradiction?

As for your claim about the absence of /q/ in the [sedentary] southeastern dialect and about the word gaṭṭaɛ in that dialect: I'm pretty shocked, because I myself speak that dialect at a near-native level (although I wanted to know the exact meaning of "gharrim" in that dialect), and my parents speak it at a native level. Not only have we (they and me) never heard the word gaṭṭaɛ in that dialect, but I also did hear the Qaf pronounced - in that dialect - as the classical Qaf, in most of the words (e.g. in the words "qæl", "qɑm", "qerr", "qedd" meaning size, and so on), except for rare cases - like "bagra" (and "gedd" meaning can) and likewise. What you claim about the absence of /q/ is only true for the nomadic southeastern dialect rather than for the sedentary one. HOTmag (talk) 00:23, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: I did not read your post very well as I was leaving home when I answered you. In fact, what is accurate about the example of gedd is that Sfax dialect uses "gedd" for both meanings. Tunis dielact uses "qedd" for both meanings. The Sahil dialect uses, "qedd" - for size, and "gedd" - for can. Other dialects use "gedd" for both meaning. As for what you said about pronouncing [q] in Southeastern Tunisian, I think that we do not talk about the same variety of Tunisian. Southeastern Tunisian is the one spoken in the Governorates of Gabes, Medenine and Tataouine. As shown by Cantineau, Marçais, Baccouche as well as many other scientists, [q] is pronounced as [g] even in sedentary regions. Extinguishing Judeo-Tunisian variant of Djerba is an exception that pronounces [q] and [g] as [q] unless in French loanwords and bagra. So, please tell me what is your hometown in Tunisia so that I can verify if we are talking about the same dialect. --Csisc (talk) 16:12, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Okay, now it seems more reasonable. Actually, I have never been in Tunisia (although I speak the southeastern dialect at a near native level). My parents were born in Djerba (in الحارة الكبيرة), and lived there for 14 years. HOTmag (talk) 17:11, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: What your parents speak is a modified Judeo-Tunisian that uses Southeastern Tunisian vocabulary. In fact, Judeo-Tunisian seems to be similar to Sfax dialect. Judeo-Tunisian and Tunisian have the same morphology. However, there are some phonological differences that were specified by Cohen in Cohen, D. (1970). Les deux parlers arabes de Tunis. Notes de phonologie comparee. In his Etudes de linguistique semitique et arabe, 150(7). Judeo-Tunisian is mainly spoken in Houmt Souk and Ghraiba by jews and even by muslim people. I propose you to read some books about the issue although they are limited and work to develop the work about Judeo-Tunisian Arabic in Wikipedia and prove that Judeo-Tunisian Arabic is spoken by muslim people in Houmt Souk and Ghraiba. --Csisc (talk) 14:18, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. In what sense, is it similar to Sfax dialect? I suppose both dialects share common components (e.g...?) of ancient Tunisian vocabulary, but do they also share common structures in morphology?

By the way, although we say "qarn" - for both horn and century, we still say "garn fulful" - with a /g/, for a unit of cow-horn pepper - as well as for a single banana pepper and generally for a single chili pepper. HOTmag (talk) 17:36, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: Judeo-Tunisian Arabic has the same morphology as Sfax dialect as both of them are prehilalian dialects. In fact, it uses aw/ay (diphthongs) and it uses minimization (qṭayṭas) However, their behaviour with loanwords (Judeo-Tunisian does not modify loanwords after adopting them such as garn fulful that is adopted from Southwestern dialect) and their vocabulary is different (There are several words that are only used in the Judeo-Tunisian). --Csisc (talk) 15:58, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding qṭayṭaṣ, I'm quite surprised: Isn't the minimization a general phenomenon in the Maghreb, including Tunisia as a whole? Regarding "garn fulful", why did you mention the southwestern dialect only? HOTmag (talk) 07:43, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: Judeo-Tunisian of Tunis uses flaflaya. Judeo-Tunisian of Djerba uses garn fulful due to language contact with Southeastern Tunisian dialect. As for the minimization, it is a general phenomenon of Arabic dialects and not only of Maghrebi ones. However, the overuse of this minimization in practice is one of the particularities of Judeo-Tunisian and Sfax dialects. --Csisc (talk) 12:45, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanx. Anyways, I'd used "fulful" just incidentally: The more common word in my dialect is fləflaya (for singular) and fləfla (for Plural). Btw, do other Tunisian dialects use "garn / qarn" for a single unit of chili pepper, as my dialect does? HOTmag (talk) 13:04, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: Of course, All Tunisian Arabic dialects use garn fulful for a single unit of chili pepper. However, Judeo-Tunisian of Tunis does not use it and just use fləflaya as specified by Cohen 1970. So, it is a loanword from Southeastern Tunisian dialect in the one of Djerba. --Csisc (talk) 13:10, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, now I see. Thank you.

By the way, when I took a look at our article Tunisian Arabic morphology today, I was surprised to see that the future tense in Tunisian Arabic is expressed by the form: "maːʃ niktib" or "baːʃ niktib" (I will write), "maːʃ tiktib" or "baːʃ tiktib" (you will write), and likewise. That surprised me, because of two reasons:

• First, because my dialect never uses the prefix "ma:ʃ ", and uses the prefix "ba:ʃ " for only the modal meaning of "to". For example, the sentence: "Give me five dollars to buy fish", is translated into my dialect as following: "a3ṭi:ni xəmsa ḍoḷa:ṛ ba:ʃ nəʃri 7u:t". Similarly, "I told him to go" is translated: "Qəltlu ba:ʃ yəmʃi". Do you know of any other Tunisian dialect using "ba:ʃ " in that modal sense?
• Second, because when I use the future tense in my dialect, it is always expressed by the form "7ənniktib" - "7əttiktib" - and likewise (no doubt it's an abbreviation of "n7əbb niktib" - "t7əbb tiktib" - and likewise). Do you know of any other Tunisian dialect using that form?

I was also surprised to see that the negation form of the past tense is not similar to the negation of the other tenses: In my dialect, just as "I didn't write" is "ma ktibtʃ " (or more precisely: "ma ktibtʃi "), so "I don't write" is "ma niktibʃ " (or more precisely: "ma niktibʃi "). The same form of negation is used for the future tense. I wonder if any other Tunisian dialect is similar to mine at that point. HOTmag (talk) 19:59, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: maːʃ has been reported in several works like the one of Singer and that is why I have written about it in Tunisian Arabic morphology part even if it is not common. As for baːʃ, it is used as to and as a modal in Tunisian Arabic dialects. For example, -Wīn māšī -Bāš nimšī l- is-sūq bāš nišrī xuḍra. The first one is will and the second is to. Both meanings are cited in the Wikipedia work. The use of 7ənniktib in your dialect proves that it is a Judeo-Tunisian dialect. As for the negation, it is written in Tunisian Arabic morphology work that mā ...š is used "uith verbs conjugated in the present, past and conditional tenses"... Thank you for writing to me about that fact. --Csisc (talk) 13:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to the negation "mā...ʃ " (in fact it's "mā...ʃi " in my dialect): The article excludes the future tense (as well as the present participle), whereas my dialect uses the same form for all tenses - as I've already indicated in my previous response. E.g. "I will write" is "7ənniktib" - in my dialect, while "I won't write" - is simply "mā 7ənniktibʃ " (in fact it's "mā 7ənniktibʃi ") - in my dialect.

Btw, do you know of Tunisian dialects (other than my dialect) that use the negation form "mā...ʃi " instead of "mā...ʃ "?

Here is an important phenomenon, which (I'm almost sure) exists in all Tunisian dialects (at least it exists in my dialect) - although it is not indicated in the article: It is the replacement of the negation suffix " ʃ " (i.e. of the negation suffix " ʃi " in my dialect) by " ṣ " (i.e. by " ṣi " in my dialect) - in an emphatic environment. For example: "mā qɑmṣ" (i.e. "mā qɑmṣi" in my dialect). The only clear exception I can think of right now, is the verb "qæl" - that is negated by "mā qælʃ " (i.e. by "mā qælʃi " in my dialect). I suppose that's true for all Tunisian dialects, isn't that? HOTmag (talk) 14:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think that these are some of the distinctives of your dialect. Unfortunately, they do not exist in other Tunisian varieties. --Csisc (talk) 16:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thankxs. Btw, do you know of radio/TV channels broadcasted in Tunisian Darja? I would like to listen/watch, just to see if I understand. HOTmag (talk) 16:41, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there are many channels that are broadcasting in Tunisian Arabic. For example, you can listen to SHEMS FM in http://www.shemsfm.net/fr/radio. But, I think that you will understand Tunisian Arabic. I ask if you pronounce [ʔ] in your dialect. --Csisc (talk) 16:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that's great! I've just listened, and - although it's a little bit different from the Darja I'm more familiar with - I understand everything (or almost everything) of the small talk (however the news uses much Fuṣ7a terminology I don't understand). Anyways, thanks a lot :-)

As for the [ʔ]: I guess you're not asking generally about my glottal stop (e.g. the glottal stop in my English, e.g. in the words "button" and "important" - usually pronounced "bʌʔn" and "ɪmpoɹʔnt" in my American accent). I assume you're asking about the hamza - in my Tunisian Arabic dialect, but I suspect no hamza exists in that dialect. So I assume you're asking about Tunisian words that are derived from Standard Arabic words containing an original hamza, aren't you? Anyways, If I pronounce such an original hamza at all, then I pronounce it like /h/. E.g. "I commanded", is "hṃəṛt" in my Tunisian dialect. I know that uneducated Tunisian people tend to replace this original hamza by /h/, so if this is what you mean - then...yes: I've never learnt Standard Arabic, except for basic knowledge I obtained from books written in English. HOTmag (talk) 17:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: I needed just to verify if what you speak is Judeo-Tunisian Arabic and this is accurate as you pronounce 'ṃəṛt as hṃəṛt. This is a particularity of Judeo-Tunisian Arabic dialects. As for the channel, I am happy that it was intelligible for you. --Csisc (talk) 14:53, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have already concluded that - in your previous responses, due to words like "qarn" meaning "horn", and to the morphology of the future tense (You have also indicated the heavy usage of minimization, although my parents have never been in Sfax). However, please note that our article Tunisian Arabic indicates that also less educated Tunisian people tend to replace the hamza by /h/. HOTmag (talk) 15:27, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@HOTmag: I thank you for your answer. Judeo-Tunisian has the particularitiy to change [ʔ] by [h] even when it is in the beginning of the word. Tunisian only does that with the glottal stop. I will begin working on Judeo-Tunisian in Wikipedia in several days. It was very helpful to discuss with you about it. --Csisc (talk) 15:41, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome... HOTmag (talk) 21:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Mr Csisc,

Nice to meet you.

On this talk page you mentioned you had created script converter from Tunisian Arabic to the Tunisian Latin alphabet. Could you show me the link to that online script converter?

Regards, --Philip J (talk) 02:33, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Philip J: Thank you for your answer about the converter. The software converts diacritized Tunisian Arabic written using Buckwalter transliteration into Tunisian Arabizi. As we used to write Tunisian Arabic without diacritics, the text should be diacritized, then converted to Buckwalter transliteration and finally converted to Tunisian Arabizi using my software that was compiled using PASCAL. Implementing these three softwares will be very difficult. That is why I applied for help. --Csisc (talk) 09:39, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Could you kindly help me transliterate this text into the Tunisian Latin script? (ie. the one that you have on your software):

Using an online tool, this is what I get:

"Allah ḥab annās alkul ldarjit ʾinnū ʿṭā abnū alwaḥīd bāš ʾay wāḥid yimmin bīh mā yithilikš, ʾāmā ynāl alḥayāt alʾabadiyya."

If you could help me write it into the current Tunisian latin orthography that you have on your software, then that would be appreciated, Thank you. --Philip J (talk) 10:04, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Philip J: The Latin Script you have used is Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellshaft Umschrift. It is one of the first script used for Tunisian Arabic for linguistic studies. However, it is not the one recognised by SIR International. The one that was recognised by SIR International is the Tunisian Arabizi. The text becomes "Allah 7th ennès elkol ldarjet enough 36a ebnou lwa7id bèch ay wè7ed yammen big ma yethelekch, ama ynèl el7ayèt ellabadiyya". --Csisc (talk) 10:22, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your help! I am very Grateful. This language really is unique. Let me know when your conversion software is available online. For example, here are a list of transliteration tools available online. --Philip J (talk) 10:34, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Philip J: I will do that. Thank you. --Csisc (talk) 11:01, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Philip J: The script converter is now available in https://works.bepress.com/houcemeddine_turki/20. You should know that this script converter converts texts in Buckwalter system to Arabizi. You have first to convert texts in Arabic Script to Buckwalter using Encode Arabic and the guidelines written in the pdf. Thank you for your interest and I invite the WMF language committee to adopt it to develop a script converter for the Tunisian Arabic Wikipedia. --Csisc (talk) 15:37, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. I will be busy over the next few weeks so I will not have time to test it out; but I'm sure other Wikipedians may also be interested in it. --Philip J (talk) 07:56, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

digla/ Hello =[edit]

Hello. In my Tunisian dialect, the word for a type of the fruit (=date) of palm tree, is /digla/. Do you use this word in Sfax? I'm asking, because Aramaic language has an almost identical word - /diqla/ - meaning the palm tree, so it seems like the /g/ of /digla/ in my Tunisian dialect derives from an original Semitic /q/. HOTmag (talk) 12:58, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HOTmag: All what you said is accurate. It seems that you have well known the issue. --Csisc (talk) 09:15, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So I understand you use this word in Sfax as well. Now I wonder about the other regions in Tunisia. If this word is used in all of them, then it can show another example, besides /bagra/, for a Tunisian /g/ deriving from an original Semitic /q/. HOTmag (talk) 09:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HOTmag: Thank you for your interest in Tunisian Arabic dialects. This word is used in all the Tunisian Arabic dialects and you can easily find people using it in Tunisia. --Csisc (talk) 10:08, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So it seems like we can add this word - as a second example - besides /bagra/, in our article Tunisian Arabic. Am I right? HOTmag (talk) 10:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HOTmag: Of course. You can add the word and cite the work of Ben Abdelkader as a reference for it as it involves the word. --Csisc (talk) 10:56, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Does Abdelkader indicate this word as an example of a Tunisian /g/ deriving from an originally Semitic /q/ ? HOTmag (talk) 11:13, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HOTmag: No, this is not written. However, it is written that /digla/ and not /diqla/ is used for Tunisian Arabic dialects. --Csisc (talk) 15:44, 1 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I didn't see the word /digla/ in Ben Abdelkader's work. Would you like to tell me which page it is, ibid.? HOTmag (talk) 09:55, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HOTmag: I am sorry. It is not Ben Abdelkader's work. It is the work of K. Abdellatif entitled Dico Karmous. Dico Karmous can be cited as Abdellatif, K. (2010). Dictionnaire «le Karmous» du Tunisien. --Csisc (talk) 12:10, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Done HOTmag (talk) 13:51, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The final round of the 2016 WikiCup is over. Congratulations to the 2016 WikiCup top three finalists:

• First Place - Cas Liber (submissions)
• Second Place - MPJ-DK (submissions)
• Third Place - Adam Cuerden (submissions)

In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:

• Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a three-way tie with themselves for two FAs in each of R2, R3, and R5).
• Good Article – MPJ-DK had 14 GAs promoted in R3.
• Featured List – Calvin999 (submissions) produced 2 FLs in R2
• Featured Pictures – Adam Cuerden restored 18 images to FP status in R4.
• Featured Portal – SSTflyer (submissions) produced the only FPO of the Cup in R2.
• Featured Topic – Cyclonebiskit (submissions) and Calvin were each responsible for one FT in R3 and R2, respectively.
• Good Topic – MPJ-DK created a GT with 9 GAs in R5.
• Did You Know – MPJ-DK put 53 DYKs on the main page in R4.
• In The News – Dharmadhyaksha (submissions) and Muboshgu (submissions), each with 5 ITN, both in R4.
• Good Article Review – MPJ-DK completed 61 GARs in R2.

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And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. It would have been 5 points, but when a late entrant was permitted to join the contest in February, a promise was made that his inclusion would not result in the exclusion of any other competitor. To achieve this, the six entrants that had the lowest positive score of 4 points have been added to the 64 people who otherwise would have qualified. As a result, some of the groups have nine contestants rather than eight. Our top four scorers in round 1 were:

• Cas Liber, last year's winner, led the field with two featured articles on birds and a total score of 674.
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