Lebanese fowk
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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 Christianity 1 Islam 2 (maistly Shi'a 3 an Sunni ) Greek Orthodox , Greek Catholic an Protestant . Alawites an Druze 4 .
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 Lebanese fowk ( Arabic : ????? ???????? ‎ / ALA-LC : al-sha‘ab al-lubn?n? , Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [e???a?b ell?b?neːne] ) 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.

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.

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