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The majority of Syrian Arabs speak a variety of dialects belonging to Levantine Arabic.Arab tribes and clans of Bedouin descent are mainly concentrated in the governorates of al-Hasakah, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and eastern Aleppo, forming roughly 30% of the total population and speaking a dialect related to Bedouin and Najdi Arabic.
One example is the area in the North under control by Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Many human rights groups, including Amnesty International [37] and international organizations [38] [39] have accused SDF forces of committing ethnic cleansing in Arab areas they were capturing from other war factions. [40]
The presence of Arabs in Syria is recorded since the 9th century BC, [78] and Roman period historians, such as Strabo, Pliny the Elder, and Ptolemy, reported that Arabs inhabited many parts of Syria, [79] which according to modern historians indicate either an ethnic group or a nomadic way of life.
The Alawite community - from which the Assad family originates - are the largest Muslim minority group in Syria, making up roughly 10 per cent of the population and situated largely in Syria’s ...
Syrian Kurds live mainly in three Kurdish pockets in northern Syria adjacent to Turkey. [5] Many Kurds also live in the large cities and metropolitan areas of the country, for example, in the neighborhood Rukn al-Din in Damascus, which was formerly known as Hayy al Akrad (Kurdish Quarter), and the Aleppo neighborhoods of al Ashrafiya [22] and Sheikh Maqsood.
The second-largest ethnic group in Syria are the Kurds. They constitute about 9% [ 342 ] to 10% [ 5 ] of the population, or approximately 2 million people (including 40,000 Yazidis [ 5 ] ). Most Kurds reside in the northeastern corner of Syria and most speak the Kurmanji variant of the Kurdish language . [ 342 ]
Ethnic groups in Syria (21 C, 30 P) Expatriates in Syria (47 C, 5 P) I. Immigration to Syria (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Demographics of Syria"
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Syria" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...