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Languages of Lebanon
OfficialModern Standard Arabic (MSA)
Semi-officialFrench
MainLebanese dialect of Levantine Arabic
MinorityWestern Armenian
ForeignEnglish
SignedLevantine Sign Language
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Most people in Lebanon speak the Lebanese variety of Levantine Arabic, but Lebanon's official language is Modern Standard Arabic (MSA);[1] French is also recognized,[2] and is used alongside MSA on road signs and Lebanese banknotes. Lebanon's native sign language is the Lebanese dialect of Levantine Arabic Sign Language.[3] English is the fourth language by number of users, after Levantine, MSA, and French.[4] Most Armenians in Lebanon can speak Western Armenian,[5] and some can speak Turkish.[6] Syriac Aramaic is also spoken as a first language in some Lebanese communities such as Syriac Catholics, Syriac Orthodox and Assyrian Lebanese. It is also used in liturgies in other communities such as Maronite Catholics.

Common languages

According to Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024),[4] these languages have the most users in Lebanon:

  1. Levantine Arabic – 5,230,000
  2. Modern Standard Arabic – 4,780,000
  3. French– 2,530,000
  4. English – 2,130,000
  5. Western Armenian – 261,000
  6. Turkish – 189,000

History

Further information: Levantine Arabic § History

Starting in the 1st millennium BCE, Aramaic was the dominant spoken language and the language of writing and administration in the Levant—[7] where Lebanon is. Because there are no written sources, the history of Levantine Arabic before the modern period is unknown.[8] In the early 1st century CE, a great variety of Arabic dialects were already spoken by various nomadic or semi-nomadic Arabic tribes in the Levant.[9][10][11] These dialects were local, coming from the Hauran—and not from the Arabian Peninsula—[12] and related to later Classical Arabic.[13] Initially restricted to the steppe, Arabic-speaking nomads started to settle in cities and fertile areas after the Plague of Justinian in 542 CE.[12] These Arab communities stretched from the southern extremities of the Syrian Desert to central Syria, the Anti-Lebanon mountains, and the Beqaa Valley.[14][15] The Muslim conquest of the Levant (634–640[16][17]) brought Arabic speakers from the Arabian Peninsula who settled in the Levant.[18] Arabic became the language of trade and public life in cities, while Aramaic continued to be spoken at home and in the countryside.[15] The language shift from Aramaic to vernacular Arabic was a long process over several generations, with an extended period of bilingualism, especially among non-Muslims.[15][19] Christians continued to speak Syriac for about two centuries, and Syriac remained their literary language until the 14th century.[20][21] In its spoken form, Aramaic nearly disappeared, except for a few Aramaic-speaking villages,[21] but it has left substrate influences on Levantine.[19] The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century reduced the use of Turkish words due to Arabization and the negative perception of the Ottoman era among Arabs.[22] With the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (1920–1946),[23] the British protectorate over Jordan (1921–1946), and the British Mandate for Palestine (1923–1948), French and English words gradually entered Levantine Arabic.[24][25]

Diglossia, code-switching and loanwords

Lebanon—and the Arab world in general—exists in a state of diglossia:[26] the language used in literature, formal writing, or other specific settings is different from that used in conversations. Lebanon's official language,[1] Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), has no native speakers in or outside Lebanon.[27] It is almost never used in conversations[28] and is learned through formal instruction rather than transmission from parent to child.[29] MSA is the language of literature, official documents, and formal written media (newspapers, instruction leaflets, school books),[29] and in spoken form, it is mostly used when reading from a scripted text (e.g., news bulletins) and for prayer and sermons in the mosque or church.[29] Levantine, conversely, is spoken natively and used in conversations, TV shows, films, and advertisements.[30] This diglossia has been compared to the use of Latin as the sole written, official, liturgical, and literary language in Europe during the medieval period, while Romance languages were the spoken languages.[31][32] Levantine—specifically its Palestinian dialect—is the closest Arabic variety to MSA,[33][34][35] but Levantine and MSA are not mutually intelligible.[36][26] They differ significantly in their phonology, morphology, lexicon and syntax,[37] and exposure to MSA in the early childhood of native speakers of an Arabic variety results in a linguistic system that behaves like that of bilinguals.[38]

Maya Diab code-switches to English from Lebanese Levantine mid-sentence

Code-switching (alternating between languages in a single conversation) between Levantine, French, English and MSA is very common in Lebanon, often being done in both casual situations and formal situations like TV interviews.[11][39] This prevalence of code-switching has led to phrases that naturally embed multiple linguistic codes being used in everyday language, like the typical greeting "hi, كيفك؟[a] Ça va ?", which combines English, Levantine and French.[40][41][42] Code-switching also happens in politics. For instance, not all politicians master MSA, so they rely on the Lebanese dialect of Levantine.[43]

Additionally, many words used in the Lebanese dialect of Levantine have been borrowed from French, such as telfizyōn listenⓘ(French: télévision ⓘ), balkōn ⓘ(French: balcon ⓘ, meaning balcony) and doktōr ⓘ (French: docteur ⓘ, meaning doctor),[44] and from English, such as CD, crispy, hot dog, and keyboard,[45] with some phrases and verbs being altered to follow the syntax of Levantine Arabic, instead of English. For example, shayyik comes from the English word check, and sayyiv comes from the English word save.[45]

Usage

Conversation

Protester holding a Levantine sign saying "ما خصك!"

Lebanon's native language, Levantine Arabic,[4] is the main language used in conversations. The main dialect of Levantine used in Lebanon is Lebanese Arabic (or simply Lebanese).[28] MSA, despite being Lebanon's second language by number of users,[4] is almost never used in conversations,[28] while English is, even between some native speakers of Levantine.[45] Levantine Arabic Sign Language is Lebanon's native sign language; Lebanon's deaf population is estimated at 12,000.[3][4]

Graffiti reads: I heart Tripoli, with a drawn heart
English-language sign in Tripoli, Lebanon

Western Armenian is used between the Armenians in Lebanon,[5][46] who fled to Lebanon between 1895 and 1939 for multiple reasons,[b][48] and in 2015, made up around 4% of Lebanon's population.[47] Their mother tongue remains widespread,[5] and some Armenians in Lebanon can even speak Turkish, more than a century after their ancestors left Turkey.[6]

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"For sale" written in MSA, French, and Armenian in Bourj Hammoud

Some Kurds fled to Lebanon from violence and poverty in Turkey. However, they are dispersed in Lebanon and have largely abandoned Kurdish languages.[c][5] Kurds in Lebanon were estimated at 70,000 in 2020, and Kurmanji's users at 23,000.[4]

Oral media

Many public and formal speeches and most political talk shows are in Lebanese, not MSA.[43] In the Arab world, most films and songs are in vernacular Arabic.[50] Egypt was the most influential center of Arab media productions (movies, drama, TV series) during the 20th century,[51] but Levantine is now competing with Egyptian.[52] As of 2013, about 40% of all music production in the Arab world was in Lebanese.[51] Lebanese television is the oldest and largest private Arab broadcast industry.[53] Most big-budget pan-Arab entertainment shows are filmed in the Lebanese dialect in the studios of Beirut. Moreover, the Syrian dialect dominates in Syrian TV series (such as Bab al-Hara) and in the dubbing of Turkish television dramas, which are both aired in Lebanon.[51][54] With the release of Secret of the Wings in 2012, Disney began re-dubbing and dubbing its films in MSA, instead of Egyptian,[55][56] and in March 2013, Disney and pan-Arab television network Al Jazeera made a deal allowing the latter to distribute some of Disney's MSA-dubbed shows and films.[55][57] The release of Frozen with MSA dubbings and without an Egyptian one caused a controversy in the Arab world.[55][30]

On the popular television network LBCI, Arab and international news bulletins are in MSA, while the Lebanese national news broadcast is in a mix of MSA and Lebanese Arabic.[58]

Lebanese TV station OTV and some radio stations that cover news of the Armenian diaspora in Lebanon broadcast daily Armenian news bulletins.[5] Of Lebanon's 34 radio stations, 11 have either French or English names.[45]

Lebanon used to have two francophone television stations, but they were shut down in the mid-1990s. Show hosts on television networks that are traditionally affiliated with Christians, such as MTV and LBCI, tend to use more English and French words than hosts in networks owned by Muslims, such as Future TV, Al-Manar, and NBN.[45]

Writing

See also: Levantine Arabic § Orthography and writing systems
MSA plaque on Said Akl's statue in AUST's campus, Beirut

Unlike Levantine,[59] Modern Standard Arabic has a standardized spelling in the Arabic script,[60] and is often used in literature, official documents, newspapers, school books, instruction leaflets,[29] and more. Subtitles are usually in MSA,[61] sometimes translating Arabic dialects to MSA.[62]

In formal media, Levantine is seldom written, except for some novels, plays, humorous writings,[63][64] and most Lebanese zajal and other forms of oral poetry.[65][11] In the 1960s, Lebanese poet Said Akl listenⓘ listenⓘ—inspired by the Maltese and Turkish alphabets—[66] designed a new Latin alphabet for Lebanese and promoted the official use of Lebanese instead of MSA,[67] but this movement was unsuccessful.[68][69] Arabizi, also known as Arabic chat alphabet, is commonly used on social media and discussion forums, SMS messaging, and online chat,[70] especially among younger generations. Arabizi combines the Latin alphabet with Western Arabic numerals to make up for sounds unavailable with the Latin alphabet alone.[71][42] A 2012 study found that, when writing in Levantine on Facebook, Arabizi is more common than the Arabic script in Lebanon, while the Arabic script is more common in other Levantine countries.[72] Arabizi evolved because it was easier to use the Latin alphabet, not because Arabic-script keyboards were unavailable.[71] Several studies have reported that the complexity of Arabic orthography slows down the word identification process, but Arabizi is not always read faster than the Arabic script, depending on vowelization, the reader's gender, and other factors.[73]

Email communication and announcements in professional job settings are mostly through English.[45]

Education

See also: Education in Lebanon
Boys and girls in a classroom
Syrian refugee students, Lebanon, 2016

Between 1994 and 1997, the Council of Ministers passed a new National Language Curriculum that required schools to use either English or French in natural sciences and mathematics.[45][74] In general, school students are exposed to two or three languages: MSA and either French, English or both.[39] Students' native language, Levantine, is not taught in schools, although MSA-medium lessons are often taught in a mix of MSA and Levantine with, for instance, the lesson read out in MSA and explained in Levantine.[11][1] While many young Lebanese struggle with basic MSA reading and writing skills,[28] Syrian refugees transitioning from the MSA-centric Syrian education system to the English- and French-centric Lebanese system struggle with English and French. They are often placed several grade levels below their age level as a result of differences in language of instruction, causing negative consequences on their psychosocial well-being.[75]

The number of students learning in English is increasing, while those learning in French is decreasing: In 2019, 50% of school students studied in French, compared to 70% twenty years prior to that. In 2019, 55% of French-educated students chose to go to English-medium universities.[76][77] Some schools use both English and French as a medium of instruction, and some use Armenian.[78]

Government and law

Following its independence in 1943, Lebanon's official language changed from French and MSA to just MSA. Today, MSA is the official language, while French is a recognized one.[78][1][4] It is used alongside MSA on road signs, the Lebanese lira and public buildings.

Lebanon's national anthem[79] and all government-related announcements, documents, and publications are in MSA.[45]

Lebanese Arabic—the variety of Levantine Arabic—is used in courtrooms, but in order to record court proceedings, the judge restates in MSA what the suspect has said, and the court recorder handwrites the judge's translation.[45][80] This process, according to a report funded and led by the World Bank, "risks an edit or an omission in the restatement by the judge."[81][82]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Transliterated as kīfak (when asked to a male) or kīfik (when asked to a female)
  2. ^ According to Minority Rights Group,[47] Cilician Catholics seeking refuge from the Armenian Orthodox Church's persecution initially came to Lebanon in the 18th century. Subsequent and bigger immigration waves arrived due to massacres by the Turks in 1895–1896 and the Armenian genocide of 1915. More arrived when France's attempt to establish an Armenian entity in Cilicia failed in 1920–1921. The last influx resulted from France ceding Alexandretta to Turkey in 1939.
  3. ^ Kurdish is often seen as a single language, and its descendants Kurmanji and Zazaki as it dialects, instead of separate languages.[49]

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