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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.
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 second-largest ethnic group in Syria are the Kurds. They constitute about 9% [ 345 ] 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 . [ 345 ]
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. ...
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"
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. [ 25 ] [ 13 ] [ 2 ] [ 11 ] [ 1 ] The estimates are diluted due to the effects of the Syrian civil war and the permeability of the Syrian-Turkish border. [ 26 ]
Rebel groups were delivered a severe blow after the loss of Aleppo to the Syrian regime in 2016. ... a city in northwestern Syria with a population of 4 million, mostly those displaced by the ...