Ghat is a small town in the south-western edge of Libya. Different ethnic groups reside in Ghat. Therefore, there are three main languages spoken in Ghat: Arabic, Tamahaq, and Hausa. Of course, there are other international languages spoken by other people who live in Ghat such as English and French.
Because Ghat residents are multilingual, they code switch and code mix between two or more of those languages in their daily interactions. Arabic is the language of formal and administrative use. It is also the lingua franca, which all components of the society use to communicate with each other.
please find more info about Ghat here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghat,_Libya
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