The written Arabic is the official language of Lebanon, but the spoken language is the Lebanese dialect. This dialect has very clean and simple accents in comparison with its Arab vicinity. Indeed, this dialect released the difficult Arab accents to transform them into sounds much simpler and more understandable. This last is seldom written, the Lebanese one write it on Internet but by using the Latin alphabet and not the Arabic alphabet. The second spoken language by the Lebanese one is the French which is the administrative language and " of jure" from Lebanon. The other spoken languages without official statute are the English and the Armenian . English, whose popularity increases very quickly, is taught like first or second living language in the schools (according to their system). Let us note that the Armenian is the native language of the Armenian of Lebanon, that is to say a language of 100.000 speakers. Also let us note that Lebanon is the only Arab country where the population is able to speak almost 4 languages (thanks to the high rate of elimination of illiteracy of Lebanese).

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