Sūrīyah (Syria)
About 21.518 million people live in Syria. Capital is Damascus. Located in Asia. Currency is the Pound (syp). Telephone prefix is +963
Arabic, North Levantine is the main language of Syria (8.8 million speakers)
2 languages spoken mainly here:
- 15,000 speakers of Neo-Aramaic, Western
20 languages also spoken here:
- 1.8 million speakers of Arabic, Mesopotamian (عراقي ʕ)
- 938,000 speakers of Kurdish, Northern
- 320,000 speakers of Armenian
- 300,000 speakers of Arabic, North Mesopotamian
- 30,000 speakers of Azerbaijani, South (آذربایجان دیلی)
- 30,000 speakers of Neo-Aramaic, Assyrian
- 25,000 speakers of Adygei
- 10,000 speakers of Domari
- 7,000 speakers of Turoyo
- Arabic, Egyptian (اللغة المصرية الحديثة)
- Persian, Iranian (فارسی)
- Arabic, Najdi (اللهجة النجدية)
- Arabic, South Levantine
- Turkmen
- Kabardian
- Chechen
- Neo-Aramaic, Chaldean
- Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi
- Arabic, Standard (اللغة العربية الفصحى)
- Lomavren
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