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Lebanese

Ливанцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
45
Latvia, census 2021 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
89
sum of censuses in 2 countries, 2010-2021
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Latvia: 45 people in the 2021 census.

Official figures exist for 2 countries; together they add up to 89. This is not an estimate of the world total: the censuses were held in different years (2010-2021) and define belonging differently, and countries without such data are not counted.

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.

Latvia2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lebanese» · [1]
45
Virgin Islands, British2010 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Lebanese» · [2]
44
Sum across 2 countries89

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

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsEmiratisBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleArabsIraqisAssyriansAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Latvia, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. British Virgin Islands, 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)