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Berber languages are also spoken in some cases, including Ghadamès, Awjilah, and formerly Sawknah. Tamahaq is spoken by the Tuareg people . Libya's former Head of State Muammar Gaddafi denied the existence of Berbers as a separate ethnicity, and called Berbers a "product of colonialism" created by the West to divide Libya.
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. ...
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.
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.
^ The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran recognizes the Arabic language as the language of Islam, giving it a formal status as the language of religion, and regulates its spreading within the Iranian national curriculum. The constitution declares in Chapter II: (The Official Language, Script, Calendar, and Flag of the Country) in ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
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%)
Tamahaq also known as (Tahaggart Tamahaq or Tamahaq Tahaggart) is the only known Northern Tuareg language, spoken in Algeria, western Libya and northern Niger. It varies little from the Southern Tuareg languages of the Aïr Mountains, Azawagh and Adagh. The differences mostly consist of sound substitutions, such as Tamahaq instead of Tamajaq or ...