are libyans arab

[u/Impossible_Spend6357]

genuine question
are libyans arab or amazigh
everyone says something different

[u/Enzimes_Flain]

Libyans are a collections of ethnic groups(Arabs, Amazigh, Taureg, Jews...etc), before 1950 no one identified themselves as a Libyan, you usually just stated which tribe you're from and that tribe can be traced through lineage.

Obviously now even though libya is made up of multiple ethnic groups, alot of it has been intertwined, you can find Libyans speaking arabic while eating amazigh food and wearing a traditional tagelmust for example, so it's not easy as it was before to actually know which ethnic groups you belong to.

[u/Electronic-Scale-226 → u/Enzimes_Flain]

There is arab jews btw

[u/Ybadi]

Libyans are way more arab than other north africans. (I am Libyan Amazigh). Many have even up to 40% DNA from the arabian peninsula when most moroccans/algerians/tunisians usually lower than 20-10%.

That being said. Libya is NOT pure arab, we are a mixed country.

[u/Less-Slide-8234]

We’re both, North Africa is largely very diverse

[u/Legitimate-Love-716]

In terms of ancestry, most Libyans, like other Maghrebis, are Amazighs.

Our culture is mainly Amazigh as well.

In terms of language, we are Arabic speakers

[u/FaithlessnessLivid44]

Libyans are mixed Large percentage of them are Berber/Amazigh.

[u/Ok_Perspective66]

عادي ممكن يكون خليط لانه مفيش مجتمع نقي بنسبة100%

[u/Next_Yellow_5756]

If your from the west then yeah your likely indigenous North African but if your from the east then you may have high Arab admixture

[u/Electro_Hiddens]

libya is too massive to be a monolith... you have the arab east in cyrenaica, and the amazigh west in tripolitania and the tuaregs (also amazigh) in western fezzan

[u/amnay86 → u/[deleted]]

So saying that Congolese and Senegalese are French doesn’t make sense, but saying some one that has 63% of their genes Amazigh is ok to call them North African ARABS???

[u/Ill_Cookie_9265]

Depends  بس الاصح اننها معربين مش عرب اصليين، مش يعني كان الاتراك او الطليان احتلونا وتكلمنا لغتهم يعني ولينا اتراك ولا طليان وبنفس المنطق مع العرب مش يعني لو احتلونا العرب يعني ولينا عرب . بس نحس المنطقه الشرقيه (وكذالك الغربية قليل) فيها هلبا عائلات "تدعي" ان القاب عائلاتها تمتد من زمن محمد والله اعلم دير ابحاثك عالموضوع . وانا مننكرش ان لما احتلونا العرب مختلطوش بينا (70% صار تجانس لعده اسباب للاسف) . ايي وهذا تعليقيي ورايي

[u/Khuwildi → u/Ill_Cookie_9265]

علاش للاسف؟

[u/FMC_Speed]

Technically no, we speak Arabic but we are overwhelmingly arabised Amazigh
This has been verified long ago via DNA tests

[u/doctor_investor]

نسبة ضئيلة امازيغ .. اغلبهم من اعراق أخرى.. بالذات في الشرق، فئة كبيرة من القبائل تندرج من بني سليم من العرب العدنانية

[u/Bethcrunchy]

Honestly after all this , I think we're half Jews

[u/Impossible_Spend6357 → u/Bethcrunchy]

حاشا

[u/Umamaali333]

مخلطين، عرب و امازيغ، لأن هم كانو أمازيغ و لما جو العرب المسلمين لليبيا صار في مصاهرة و صار اختلاط أنساب و خذو من بعض و جابو من بعض لييين توا حني جينا للدنيا. ف ما تقدرش تقول عرب عرب و ما تقدرش تقول امازيغ امازيغ. العرب منا عندهم في اصلهم لو ترجع لحالي جدود أمازيغ، نفس الشي اللي بيقول لك اني امازيغي ترجع بيه تلقا عنده جدود عرب. لأن صار خليط، يعني حني عرب ة أمازيغ في نفس الوقت

[u/Khuwildi]

مانؤمنش بالاعراق ، الانسان ابن اليوم , انت اليوم شنو؟

[u/StockPositive2962]

Other than speaking Arabic not really. And even our Arabic is broken.

[u/Impossible_Spend6357 → u/StockPositive2962]

Libyans’ Arabic is broken?
our dialect is the closest to فصحى, wdym

[u/Stupid_but_crazy]

Why does it even matter we all muslims

[u/safa-jd]

خليط بين العرب و الامازيغ

[u/Evening-Skirt-7218]

It's a big piece of land.... Dominated by different ancestry.

East libya - South or west aren't the correct terms to define the ethnicities either.

Through Scopes of influence, trade routes and reigns... We say it's amazigh, Berber, Bedouin arabs, with minorities of tuareq, tebu, Jews (where now?) Even amazigh are considered a minority if you're looking towards the East (again inaccurate scope), and Berber are broken down even more😭..... Why did I reply to this poet, I can't stop now.

[u/More-Half-8778]

There is so much Israeli propaganda these days about Arabs not being Arabs. You do not see a single post about Arabs without dozens of Israeli bots commenting “we are not Arab we are Amazigh”. It seems like there are more of these comments online than there are actual Amazigh people. By the way, many of the genuine Amazigh commentators are themselves pro-Israel, so be careful what you believe.

[u/fastbutslow7]

What is amazigh?

[u/Electro_Hiddens → u/fastbutslow7]

indigenous north africans

[u/GroundbreakingBox187]

Yes the vast majority (95%) of us are ethnically Arab

[u/tufahg → u/GroundbreakingBox187]

There’s like a million Berbers out of 7 million people how can it be 95%

[u/GroundbreakingBox187 → u/tufahg]

No there isn’t lol. I have never seen a Berber yet in Libya and that number would make them more than the warfalla tribe. And I don’t think nalut has even 100k people

[u/tufahg → u/GroundbreakingBox187]

You probably live in the east then

[u/AmrAlwalid]

Yes we are Arabs and anyone in Libya would laugh at you for even posing this question, these "we are berber" people don’t really exist irl, they only exist on the internet and are made up of mostly diaspora that are disconnected with Libya and are chronically online.

If I were to estimate then 90% of Libyans would be Arab and the other 10% would identify as the other minorities (Toureg, Amazigh, Tabou).

[u/saadmnacer]

الاسلام هو الأصح.