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Lebanon's native sign language is the Lebanese dialect of Levantine Arabic Sign Language. English is the fourth language by number of users, after Levantine, MSA, and French. Lebanon's official language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), [ 138 ] : 1917 has no native speakers in or outside Lebanon. [ 139 ]
A map of religious and ethnic communities of Syria and Lebanon (1935) According to the CIA World Factbook, [16] in 2021 the Muslim population was estimated at 60% within Lebanese territory and 20% of the over 4 million [8] [9] [10] Lebanese diaspora population. In 2012 a more detailed breakdown of the size of each Muslim sect in Lebanon was made:
More recently, some effort has been put into revitalizing Aramaic as an everyday spoken language in some ethnic Lebanese communities. [17] Also, the modern languages of Eastern Aramaic have an estimated 2–5 million speakers, mainly among Assyrians, [18] an ethnic group related to but distinct from the Maronites of Lebanon.
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...
[397] [398] Arabic is one of six official languages of the United Nations, [399] and is revered in Islam as the language of the Quran. [397] [400] Arabic has two main registers. Classical Arabic is the form of the Arabic language used in literary texts from Umayyad and Abbasid times (7th to 9th centuries).
The Syrian Lebanese in America: A Study in Religion and Assimilation (Twayne, 1975). Price, Jay M., and Sue Abdinnour, "Family, Ethnic Entrepreneurship, and the Lebanese of Kansas," Great Plains Quarterly, 33 (Summer 2013), 161–88. Shakir, Evelyn. Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America (Syracuse University Press, 2007).
Lebanon's native language, Levantine Arabic, [1] is the main language used in conversations. MSA, despite being Lebanon's second language by number of users, [1] is almost never used in conversations, [5] while English [33] and French [34] are, even between some native speakers of Levantine. Western Armenian and Kurdish are used by their ...
The majority of Lebanese people speak Lebanese Arabic, which is grouped in a larger category called Levantine Arabic, while Modern Standard Arabic is mostly used in magazines, newspapers, and formal broadcast media. Lebanese Sign Language is the language of the Deaf community. There is also significant presence of French, and of English.