Muammar Al Gaddafi was born in Sirte, Tripolitania, of a family of berber stock originally, the Qaddafa tribe. His language, as will be seen from the data, is identifiable as Tripoli Arabic (with however some bedouin phonological elements), although his education took him from Sirte (Tripilitania), to Sebha (Fezzan), Masrata (Tripolitania) and Benghazi (Cyrenaica). Sirte, in Tripolitania, is a "transitional" area according to Owens, between the West and East parts and shows characteristics of West (Tripoli) and East (Benghazi). Gaddafi's speech however, to judge from the data, does not show any influence of the Cyrenaic Arabic.