Tags: Ethnic Group.
Libyan Americans (Arabic: الليبية الأميركيين) are Americans of Libyan descent.Most Libyan Americans speak Arabic and English and a small number also speak Italian because of Libya’s 1911–1943 period as an Italian colony.[citation needed] According to answers provided to an open-ended question included in the 2000 census 2979 people said that their ancestry or ethnic origin was Libyan.