Languages of Lebanon
Republic of Lebanon, al-Jumhouriya al-Lubnaniya. 4,011,000. National or official languages: Standard Arabic, French. Literacy rate: 70%–75%. Immigrant languages: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (1,000), Chaldean Neo-Aramaic (18,000), Turoyo (18,000). Information mainly from W. Fischer and O. Jastrow 1980; H. Fleisch 1974; T. Sebeok 1963. Blind population: 5,000. Deaf population: 219,480. Deaf institutions: 13. The number of individual languages listed for Lebanon is 6. Of those, all are living languages.
| Arabic, North Levantine Spoken | [apc]
3,900,000 in Lebanon (1991). Widespread.
Alternate names: Lebanese-Syrian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Syro-Lebanese Arabic.
Dialects: North Lebanese Arabic, South Lebanese Arabic (Shii, Metuali), North-Central Lebanese Arabic (Mount Lebanon Arabic), South-Central Lebanese Arabic (Druze Arabic), Standard Lebanese Arabic, Beqaa Arabic, Sunni Beiruti Arabic, Saida Sunni Arabic, Iqlim-Al-Kharrub Sunni Arabic, Jdaideh Arabic.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Arabic, Standard | [arb]
Middle East, North Africa.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Armenian | [hye]
235,000 in Lebanon (1986).
Alternate names: Armanski, Ermenice, Haieren, Somkhuri.
Dialects: Western Armenian.
Classification: Indo-European, Armenian
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| English | [eng]
3,300 in Lebanon (2004).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
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| French | [fra]
16,600 in Lebanon (2004).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French
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| Kurdish, Northern | [kmr]
75,000 in Lebanon (Meho 2002). Ethnic population: 215,384. Beirut; Sidon, Tripoli, and Biqa Valley.
Dialects: Mhallami (Mardinli).
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Northwestern, Kurdish
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