Editing Demographics of Libya (section)

==Language==
{{Main|Languages of Libya}}
The official language of Libya is [[Standard Arabic]], while the most prevalent spoken language is [[Libyan Arabic]]. Arabic varieties are partly spoken by immigrant workers and partly by local Libyan populations. These varieties include [[Egyptian Arabic|Egyptian]], [[Tunisian Arabic|Tunisian]], [[Sudanese Arabic|Sudanese]], [[Moroccan Arabic|Moroccan]], [[Yemeni Arabic|Yemeni]], [[Hassaniya Arabic|Hassaniya]] and [[South Levantine Arabic]]. Minority [[Berber languages]] are still spoken by the Tuareg, a rural Berber population inhabiting Libya's south,<ref name="Libwe">{{cite web |title=Libyan People |url=http://www.libyaweb.com/people.html |access-date=1 April 2018 |website=www.libyaweb.com}}</ref> and is spoken by about 300,000 in the north, about 5% of the Libyan population.<ref name="Ghadamès"/>

Indigenous minority languages in Libya:<ref>{{in lang|en}} [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=LY Ethnologue report for Libya], Languages of Libya</ref>
*[[Berber languages]]: ca. 305,000 speakers (5% of the population)
**[[Nafusi language|Nafusi]]: 184,000 speakers (2006) (3%)
**[[Tamahaq]]: 47,000 speakers (2006) (<1%)
**[[Ghadamès language|Ghadamès]]: 30,000 speakers (2006) (<1%)
**[[Sawknah]]: 5,600 speakers (2006) (<1%)
**[[Awjilah language|Awjilah]]: 3,000 speakers (2000) (<1%)
*[[Domari]]: ca. 33,000 speakers (2006) (<1%)
*[[Tedaga]]: 2,000 speakers (<1%)

Non-Arabic languages had largely been spoken by foreign workers (who had been massively employed in Libya in various infrastructure projects prior to the 2011 civil war), and those languages with more than 10,000 speakers included Punjabi, Urdu, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Sinhala, Bengal, Tamil, Tagalog, French, Italian, Ukrainian, Serbian, and English.