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Libyan Arabic (Arabic: ليبي, romanized: Lībī), also called Sulaimitian Arabic by scholars, [2] is a variety of Arabic spoken in Libya, and neighboring countries. It can be divided into two major dialect areas; the eastern centred in Benghazi and Bayda , and the western centred in Tripoli and Misrata .
Ethnolinguistic map of Libya The official language of Libya is Modern Standard Arabic . Most residents speak one of the varieties of Arabic as a first language, most prominently Libyan Arabic , but also Egyptian Arabic and Tunisian Arabic .
The official language of Libya is Arabic, with vernacular Libyan Arabic being spoken most widely. The majority of Libya's population is Arab. [9] The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in northwestern Libya and contains over a million of Libya's seven million people. [10]
The greatest variations between kinds of Arabic are those between regional language groups. Arabic dialectologists formerly distinguished between just two groups: the Mashriqi (eastern) dialects, east of Libya which includes the dialects of Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, Levant, Egypt, Sudan, and the Maghrebi (western) dialects which includes ...
The Arabic language (alongside Hebrew) also remained as an official language in the State of Israel for the first 70 years after the proclamation in 1948 until 2018. The Knesset canceled the status of Arabic as an official language by adopting the relevant Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People on 19 July 2018.
English: Map of the geographical distribution of the various varieties of Arabic recognized as languages by the ISO 639-3 standard, including Arabic-based creoles but excluding Judeo-Arabic languages.
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Eastern Libyan Arabic (Arabic: ليبي شرقي) or Cyrenaican Arabic is a variety of Libyan Arabic spoken in the Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya. [1] The variety is centred in Benghazi and Bayda and extends beyond the borders to the east and shares the same dialect with western Egypt, Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, with between 90,000 and 474,000 speakers in Egypt. [2]