Libyan

Lib·y·an

L0152000 (lĭb′ē-ən)adj. Of or relating to Libya or its people, language, or culture.n.1. a. A native or inhabitant of Libya.b. A person of Libyan ancestry.2. A Berber language of ancient northern Africa.

Libyan

(ˈlɪbɪən) adj1. (Placename) of or relating to Libya, its people, or its language2. (Peoples) of or relating to Libya, its people, or its language3. (Languages) of or relating to Libya, its people, or its languagen4. (Peoples) a native or inhabitant of Libya5. (Languages) the extinct Hamitic language of ancient Libya

Lib•y•an

(ˈlɪb i ən)

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Libya or its inhabitants. n. 2. a native or inhabitant of Libya. 3. a language of ancient N Africa, taken to be a predecessor of the modern Berber languages. [1535–45]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Libyan - a native or inhabitant of Libya Libya, Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleumAfrican - a native or inhabitant of Africa
Adj.	1.	Libyan - of or relating to Libya or its people; "the Libyan desert"; "Libyan terrorists"

Translations

利比亚人利比亚的

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→ 利比亚人zhCN, 利比亚的zhCN

Libyan

the extinct Hamitic language of ancient Libya

Libyan

the Old Berber language of the Libyans inhabiting North Africa in classical antiquity. It belongs to the Hamito-Semitic language family. Numidian, a Libyan dialect, is known from inscriptions in the Libyan consonantal alphabet. The inscriptions from ancient Numidia (Tunisia and part of Algeria) date from the second and first centuries B.C. and the first centuries A.D. Most are brief funerary inscriptions, but there are two bilingual Libyan and Punic inscriptions, the dedications in a temple and mausoleum in Dougga (second century B.C.). In scriptions from the western regions of North Africa, written in a Mauretanian variant of the Libyan alphabet and for the most part undeciphered, may reveal other Libyan dialects. The modern Berber dialects probably stem from a dialect other than Numidian. Words are formed by prefixes, suffixes, and infixes. Structurally, Libyan resembles the ancient Semitic languages, but its vocabulary and phonetics are akin to the modern Berber languages.

REFERENCES

Chabot, J. B. Recueil des inscriptions libyques, fasc. 1. Paris, 1940.
Rössler, O. “Die Sprache Numidiens.” In Sybaris: Festschrift Hans Krahe. Wiesbaden, 1958.

A. B. DOLGOPOL’SKII

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