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on can be problematic, too. In the Tunisian dialect, for instance, the pronoun anti, female ‘you'is used for calling the male and vice versa. This is of course, completely different from the Standard Arabic rule and other Arabic dialects and this may cause problems during interaction with speakers of other Arabic dialects. In Libya, for example, if you call somebody (male) anti or vice versa, youmight be abused or badly treated unless the speaker is known as a Tunisian.

As mentioned in the introduction of this paper, due to lack of resources on the Libyan context in terms of diglossia, I will highlight two varieties of Arabic used in Libya, standard Arabic and colloquial Arabic.

Libya is one of the Arab countries where all but a small minority of the Libyan people are native Arabic speakers and thus they consider themselves to be Arabs. Furthermore, apart from Arabic language, there are two different languages used by minorities in Libya, which are not within the scope of this paper. They are the Amazikh and the Tamahaq languages. A minority called Berber who lives in northwest of Libya, and scattered along the western coast of Libya and a few desert oases, speaks the Amazikh. It is distantly related to Arabic, but unlike Arabic it has not developed a written form and as a consequence has no written literature. A minority called the Tuareg, on the other hand, speaks the Tamahaq and lives in the southwest of Libya, in particular, in the oasis towns of Ghat and Ghadamis. They claim close relationship with the much larger population in neighbouring Algeria and with other Tuareg elsewhere in the Sahara.

In Libya, classical Arabic is considered to be the language of the Qur'an and it is always used by Imams of mosques and as a means of learning and reciting the Koran. Many people learn Qur'ranic quotations without being able to speak the classical Arabic. Colloquial Libyan Arabic (CLA), on the other hand is very much used in Libya and like other Arab countries, it is the informal language of people.

According to Versteegh (2001), the CLA derives from the Bedouin dialects of North Africa. In the eleventh century, however, tribes of the Bedouin Hilal and Bani Salim, who came from the Peninsula, invaded first Cyrenaica (eastern Libya) and later Tripolitania (western Libyan), and were generally effective in imposing their Islamic faith and nomadic way of life.

Libya is largely Bedouin speaking, not only people who live in villages or the desert speak Bedouin dialects, but also the sedentary dialects of the urban centers such as Tripoli and Benghazi have been influenced by the Bedouin speech.

CLA, therefore, could be divided into two main colloquial languages; the eastern colloquial al- lahjja al shergawiyya which is spoken in the northeast of Libya and the western colloquial al- lahjja al gharbawiyyawhich is spoken in the northwestof Libya.

Although both colloquial languages are considered to be the informal language of almost all Libyan people, there is a considerable difference between them. Those differences could be represented in lexis and phonology. Lexically, there are a lot of words which are different in both dialects. In the eastern CLA, the word moshgaaedmeans ‘not available', whereas, the western CLA speake本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。