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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.
The Turkish settlement throughout the rural hinterlands of several Syrian cities was a state-organized population transfer which was used to counter the demographic weight and influence of other ethnic groups in the region. Furthermore, the Turkmen served as the local gendarmes to help assert Ottoman authority. [9]
Population history of Syria. In 1200, the territories of modern-day Syria had an estimated population of 2.7 million. [12] This number sharply decreased due to the Plague epidemic in 1348–1353, which killed off an estimated third of the Levant's population. By 1937, the population reached an estimated 2,368,000, still considerably lower than ...
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 ...
Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, and make up between 5 and 10 percent of the Syrian population. [24] [12] [2] [10] [1] The estimates are diluted due to the effects of the Syrian civil war and the permeability of the Syrian-Turkish border. [25]
The idioms Syrian and Greek were used by Rome to denote civic societies instead of separate ethnic groups. [75] Ancient Syria of the first millennium BC was dominated by the Aramaeans; [76] they originated in the Northern Levant as a continuum of the Bronze Age populations of Syria. [77]
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 ]
Population figures for Kurds in Syria are contentious and politicized. No census since the French mandate has included ethnic identity. Due to a lack of reliable data, only estimates can be given. [79] Most population estimates of Syrian Kurds range between 1.8 and 3.5 million, or about 8–15% of Syria's total population of 22 million. [80]