Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Lebanon!

Languages of Lebanon: The Al-Amin Mosque in Lebanon on a sunny day

Famous for its longstanding hostility with its neighbor Israel, and more recent civil war that saw more than a million flee the country, Lebanon isn’t famous for its linguistic diversity. Yet the languages of Lebanon may in fact be the most interesting thing about the country!

A former French colony that later became a hub for American oil interests, most people in Lebanon speak a mix of Arabic, French and English, whilst others speak various languages from other parts of the world…

Official Language of Lebanon

Arabic

Dialects of Arabic Spoken in Lebanon

Lebanese Arabic

Cypriote Maronite Arabic

Syrian Arabic

Palestinian Arabic

Iraqi Arabic

Foreign Languages of Lebanon

English

French

Immigrant Languages of Lebanon

Armenian

Kurdish

Turkish