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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 majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims, with a Yazidi minority; concentrated in Syrian Kurdistan region and major urban centres outside that region. Turkmen/Turkoman: 4–5%: Descendants of ethnic Turks, rather than Turkmens. These figures exclude the Arabic-speaking Turks. Only approximately 30% of Turkmen speak a Turkic language.
As a result of the civil war, estimates as to the ethnic composition of northern Syria vary widely, ranging from claims about a Kurdish majority and Arab minority to claims about Kurds being a small minority; [316] Al Jazeera stated in October 2019 that just 10 percent of the 4.5 million inhabitants of northern and northeastern Syria were Kurds ...
Ethnic enclaves in Syria (1 P) European diaspora in Syria (3 C, 2 P) I. Ismailism in Syria (1 C) J. Jews and Judaism in Syria (8 C) K. Kurdish people (23 C, 19 P)
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.
Thousands of Syrians are stranded on the Masnaa border crossing with Lebanon, looking to flee the country in fear for their futures after Islamist rebel groups ousted Bashar al-Assad’s brutal ...
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...
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"