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Libyans

Ливийцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
5,298,152
Libya, census 2006 (citizenship)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Libya: 5,298,152 people in the 2006 census.

Main language: Libyan Arabic. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Libya2006 · citizenship · «Libyan population residing in Libya (السكان الليبيين المقيمين في ليبيا) - census 2006» · [1]
5,298,152

Languages and their lineage

Libyan Arabic

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Arabianarab1394
  6. Arabicarab1395
  7. North African Arabicnort3191
  8. Libyan Arabicliby1240

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsEmiratisBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleArabsIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. Bureau of Statistics and Census (BSC), Libya. Statistical Book 2023 (الكتاب الإحصائي 2023), table: التوزيع العددي والنسبي للسكان الليبيين المقيمين في ليبيا ونسبة النوع في التعداد للسنوات 1984 - 1995 - 2006. https://bsc.ly/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%8…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)