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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 .
Libya, [b] officially the State of Libya, [c] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest, as well as maritime borders with Greece, Italy and Malta to the north.
Libya claims 32,000 square kilometres of southeastern Algeria, south of the Libyan town of Ghat. The country's official religion is Islam, with 96.6% of the Libyan population being Sunni Muslims. The official language of Libya is Arabic, with vernacular Libyan Arabic being spoken most widely. The majority of Libya's population is Arab.
English: Map of the three Governorates of Libya based on the borders of today's governorates. After independence in 1951 , until 1963, Libya was divided into three governorates ( muhafazat ): Cyrenaica , Tripolitania , and Fezzan .
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.
Minority Berber languages are still spoken by the Tuareg, a rural Berber population inhabiting Libya's south, [35] and is spoken by about 300,000 in the north, about 5% of the Libyan population. [28] Indigenous minority languages in Libya: [36] Berber languages: ca. 305,000 speakers (5% of the population) Nafusi: 184,000 speakers (2006) (3%)
3SG: M -give: PAST =as = 3SG: IO =θ = 3SG: M: DO =ið = VEN y-əwš =as =θ =ið 3SG:M-give:PAST =3SG:IO =3SG:M:DO =VEN "He gave it to him (in this direction)." (Tarifit) The allowed positioning of different kinds of clitics varies by language. Nouns Nouns are distinguished by gender, number, and case in most Berber languages, with gender being feminine or masculine, number being singular or ...
Pages in category "Languages of Libya" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...