Languages of Lebanon
Languages, writing systems and language context
Arabic is Lebanon's official national language. The Constitution provides that a law determines the cases in which French may be used, so French is not presented as a co-equal nationwide core language.
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Arabic · 28 characters
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What languages are used in Lebanon?
Arabic is Lebanon's official national language. The Constitution provides that a law determines the cases in which French may be used, so French is not presented as a co-equal nationwide core language.
What writing systems are used in Lebanon?
The represented writing system is Arabic and the primary direction shown is right to left.
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Primary constitutional source stating that Arabic is the official national language and that a law determines the cases in which French may be used.
Localized country display-name reference. CLDR names are customary UI/display names, not claims about a state’s full constitutional long-form name.
Reference for the writing-system/script families represented in the character component.
Reference for left-to-right and right-to-left script direction and bidirectional text behavior.
Reference for Unicode character names used as small readout labels under selected character samples; these labels are not presented as a complete transliteration standard.