The Tunisian dialect has borrowed from every language with which it has been in contact, like French and Italian. This lexical borrowing is subjected to several mechanisms of adaptation in order to facilitate its integration into the dialectal system. This article studies the use of certain Italian loans and describes their morphophonological, orthographic, and semantic adaptations, and determines the specialty languages to which they are related.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage