Lebanese fowk

The Lebanese fowk (Arabic: الشعب اللبناني‎ / ALA-LC: al-sha‘ab al-lubnānī, Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [eʃˈʃaʕb ellɪbˈneːne]) are the inhabitants o the kintra o Lebanon an their ancestors. The term mey include those who haed inhabitit Munt Lebanon prior tae the creation o the modren Lebanese state.

Lebanese fowk
الشعب اللبناني

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Tot population
Lebanon: 4,017,095 (Aw ethnic groups)[1] Total worldwide: 8[2]–14 million[3][4][5][6]
Regions wi signeeficant populations
Brazil	7 million(Lebanese Embassy in Brasilia)[7][8]
Lebanon	4,017,095 (July 2010 est)[1]
Argentinae	1,500,000[deid airtin][9]
Colombie	700,000[10]
Unitit States	440,000[11]
Canadae	250,000[12]
Australie	181,000[13]
Ecuador	170,000[14]
Chile	90,000[15]
Sierra Leone	33,000-40,000[16]
Nigerie	31,000
Senegal	30,000[17]
Cyprus	20,000
Unitit Kinrick	10,459
Liberie	4,000[18]
Israel	2,500[19]
Leids
Spoken Vernacular Lebanese Arabic & Cypriot Maronite Arabic Spoken Traditional Phoenician, succeedit bi Wastren Aramaic[20] Seicont Leids French, Inglis Diaspora French, Inglis, Spainyie, Portuguese
Releegion
Maronite Christianity1 Islam2 (maistly Shi'a3 an Sunni) Greek Orthodox, Greek Catholic an Protestant. Alawites an Druze4.
Relatit ethnic groups
Ither Levantines Arabs, Assiries an ither Semites
#Lebanese Christians comprise a majority o aw Lebanese, but represent anerlie a lairge minority athin Lebanon. Lebanese Muslims o aw denominations represent a majority athin Lebanon, but comprise anerlie a lairge minority o aw Lebanese. Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims hauld the plurality amang releegious groups athin Lebanon. In Lebanon, Druzism is offeecially categorisit as a Muslim denomination bi the Lebanese govrenment.

The cultural an linguistic heritage o the Lebanese fowk is a rich blend o baith indigenous elements an the foreign culturs that hae come tae rule the laund an its fowk ower the course o thoosans o years.