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Libyan Arabic


Name	Libyan Arabic
Nativename	Li:bi ليبي
Familycolor	Afro-Asiatic
States	Libya, Egypt, Niger, Algeria, Tunisia
Speakers	4.3 million (SIL Ethnologue)
Fam2	Semitic
Fam3	Central Semitic
Fam4	South Central Semitic
Fam5	Arabic
Script	Arabic alphabet
Mapcaption	Extent of Libyan Arabic
Iso3	ayl
Notice	IPA

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Libyan Arabic (Lībi ليبي; also known as Sulaimitian Arabic) is a collective term for the closely related varieties of Arabic spoken in Libya. 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 eastern variety extends beyond the borders to the east into western Egypt.

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