The codified supra-regional standard used across the Arab world in education, media, literature, and formal speech. Derived from Classical Arabic, it has no native speakers and no single regional home — it is acquired as a formal register layered above the spoken vernaculars. Cairo, as the historical center of Arabic publishing, broadcasting, and scholarship, serves as its conventional locus.
L'arabe maghrébin de la Tunisie. Notable pour les réductions vocaliques, un riche ensemble d'emprunts au français et à l'italien et une tradition écrite littéraire inhabituelle parmi les variétés arabes vernaculaires.