The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TUNISIAN
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More clues leading to the result TUNISIAN
- African national’s note about a French girl in Cardiff?
- African educational establishment is back in the shade
- New unit established by Welsh woman in African city?
- One interrupting Head of the UN is an Arabic-French speaker?
- African in short garment meeting girl from Cardiff?
- African seeing Inuits moving north across east of Canada
- Short jacket on Welsh girl from North Africa
Buddy explains!

The straight part
We know that "Arabic-French speaker?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case arabic-french speaker? = tunisian.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.