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Palestinians

Палестинцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
4,781,248
Palestine, census 2017 (resident population)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Palestine: 4,781,248 people in the 2017 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.

Palestine2017 · resident population · «Palestine (total population in Palestine, both regions)» · [1]
4,781,248
Israel2017 · ethnicity / nationality · «Palestinians in '1948 Territory' (projected, end of 2017)» · [2]
1,563,316

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 peopleAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsEmiratisBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleArabsIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Population in Palestine by Region and Sex, 2017 (Census 2017, incl. post-enumeration adjustment). https://pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_Rainbow/Documents/Population-in-Palestine-Region-E-2017.html
  2. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Palestine in Figures 2017 (March 2018), table: projected Palestinian population by country of residence. https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Downloads/book2362.pdf
  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)