Minority languages Languages of Libya
1 minority languages
1.1 berber
1.2 domari
1.3 tedaga
minority languages
berber
various berber languages spoken, including tamasheq, ghadamès, nafusi, suknah , awjilah. both berber , arabic languages belong wider afroasiatic (hamito-semitic) family.
berber speakers number around 1 million individuals. of these, significant group, nafusi, tripoli , zuwara, concentrated in tripolitanian region. berber languages spoken in oases, including ghadamès, awjilah, sawknah. tamahaq spoken tuareg.
libya s former head of state muammar gaddafi denied existence of berbers separate ethnicity, , called berbers product of colonialism created west divide libya. berber language not recognized or taught in schools, , year forbidden in libya give children berber names.
after recent uprisings in libya, national transitional council (revolutionaries) has shown openness towards berber language. independent revolutionaries libya tv , has included berber language , tifinagh alphabet in of programming.
domari
the domari, indo-iranian language spoken dom people (ca. 33,000 speakers).
tedaga
the nilo-saharan tedaga language spoken few thousand teda people.
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