Genetik
RU
Genetik/Peoples/Jordanians

Jordanians

Иорданцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
6,613,587
Jordan, census 2015 (citizenship)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Jordan: 6,613,587 people in the 2015 census.

Main language: Levantine Arabic. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Jordan2015 · citizenship · «Jordanian» · [1]
6,613,587
Palestine2007 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Jordanian» · [2]
431

Languages and their lineage

Levantine Arabic

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Arabianarab1394
  6. Arabicarab1395
  7. Levantine-Cypriot Arabicleva1239
  8. Levantine Arabicnort3139

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsEmiratisBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleArabsIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. Department of Statistics (DoS) Jordan, hosted by UN Statistics Division. Population of Jordan by Nationality - Census of 2015 (slide 6), presentation by Jordan DoS to UNSD workshop. https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/meetings/2019/bangkok--intl-migration-works…
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. State of Palestine, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  3. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)