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Name:
Arabic, Libyan Spoken
Alternate Names:
Libyan Arabic; Maghrebine; Libyan Vernacular Arabic; Sulaimitian Arabic; Bedawi; Libyan Spoken Arabic; Maghrebi Arabic; Arabic; Sulaimitian
Spoken in:
Niger, Libya, Egypt
Number of speakers:
4,000,000 in Libya (2006). Population total all countries: 4,321,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
ayl
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Maghrebine (magh)
Child Dialects:
Eastern Libyan Arabic; Arabic (Eastern Libyan) (ayl-eas)
Tripolitanian Arabic; Tripoli (ayl-tri)
Southern Libyan Arabic (ayl-sou)
Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic (avl-wes)

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