🇱🇾 Country
Libya
Libya is home to 16 languages, spoken across North Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.
Capital
Tripoli
Nationality
Libyan
Currency
Libyan Dinar (LYD)
Languages
16
Independence
Dec 24, 1951
11 active
5 endangered
0 extinct
Where the languages are spoken
Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Libya; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.
Active
Endangered
Extinct
fewer / more speakers
Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.
All languages in Libya
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Arabic
Awjilah
3K Endangered
Bega
Ghadamès
Endangered
Nafusi
Endangered
Siwi
Endangered
Sinhala
8K
Tahaggart
Endangered
Tedaga
Tamahaq
Tagalog
13K
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