Demography of Syria

Ethniquement, the Syrians belong to the Semitic people originating in the Raising. Today the Syrians are largely regarded as Arab S under the terms of their language, and of their cultural and historical bond with the Arabs. More a small number of Syrians are origins not-Semitic, resulting people having occupied the area (in particular cross ).

The population of Moslem Syria east with 90%, the country counts 10% of Christian. Among the Moslems, 78% are sunnites, and the 12% remainders are members of other Moslem groups, mainly the Alaouites and the Druzes, but also a restricted number of Ismaéliens and Chiites. The Christians are divided into several confessions: Greek orthodoxe, composing half of the Christian population, the Syrians Maronites and of the Catholic (15%), but also of the Assyrian Christians , the Armenian living mainly with Alep and of orthodoxe the Jacobites. There exists a Jewish minority in Syria, which lives mainly in Damas. Their number was estimated at 40.000, but the majority emigrated towards Israel in the years 1990. There remains a small Jewish minority in Damas and Alep today. The Israeli Jews originating in Syria, preserve for the majority of the bonds with their country of origin. There exists also another religious minority, in the North-East of the country: the Yézidis, of Kurdish ethnos group.

The Arab Language, is the official language of the country, the large majority of the Syrians speak this language. Many Syrians informed speak the English or the French, but English is more largely included/understood. The Armenian and the Turkmène are also spoken in the country. The Araméen (the biblical language, very near to Hebrew, that of Jesus Christ) is to speak by certain ethnicities, like Syriaques with Maaloula and Seidnaya, two villages in the north of Damas.

Structure of the population

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Migration and cultural composition

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