Official Languages

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Languages spoken here

Bengali (secondary) · Central Kurdish (secondary) · Chechen (secondary) · Egyptian Arabic (secondary) · Hijazi Arabic (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Levantine Arabic Sign Language (secondary) · Nepali (secondary) · Northern Kurdish (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · West Circassian (secondary) · Western Armenian (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Jordan

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Arab, Jordanian	4722000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Arab, Palestinian	3221000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Arab, Bedouin	1569000	Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi	Islam
Arab, Syrian	716000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Arab, North Iraqi	468000	Arabic, North Mesopotamian	Islam
Kabardian	170000	Kabardian	Islam
Arab, Saudi - Najdi	117000	Arabic, Najdi	Islam
Adyghe	105000	Adyghe	Islam
Turkmen, Middle-Eastern	70000	Turkish	Islam
Domari	51000	Domari	Islam
Druze	48000	Arabic, Levantine	Other / Small
Kurd, Sorani	39000	Kurdish, Central	Islam
Arab, Saudi - Hijazi	33000	Arabic, Hijazi	Islam
Deaf	30000	Jordanian Sign Language	Unknown
Arab, Egyptian general	27000	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Han Chinese, Mandarin	22000	Chinese, Mandarin	Non-Religious
Arab, Libyan	21000	Arabic, Libyan	Islam
British	14000	English	Christianity
Bengali	13000	Bengali	Islam
Armenian	12000	Armenian, Western	Christianity
Nepali, general	11000	Nepali	Hinduism
Filipino, Tagalog	10000	Tagalog	Christianity
Arab, Sudanese	9600	Arabic, Sudanese	Islam
Azerbaijani, Azeri Turk	8900	Azerbaijani, South	Islam
Kurd, Kurmanji	8400	Kurdish, Northern	Islam
Chechen	5800	Chechen	Islam

Languages

23 languages recorded here.

Adyghe

Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi

Arabic, Egyptian

Arabic, Hijazi

Arabic, Levantine

Arabic, Libyan

Arabic, Najdi

Arabic, North Mesopotamian

Arabic, Sudanese

Armenian, Western

Azerbaijani, South

Bengali

Chechen

Chinese, Mandarin

Domari

English

Jordanian Sign Language

Kabardian

Kurdish, Central

Kurdish, Northern

Nepali

Tagalog

Turkish

All catalogue fields

159 fields recorded

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iso3: JOR
iso2: JO
ctry: Jordan
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jpscalectry: 1
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c_10_40window: Y
rog2: ASI
continent: Asia
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harvest_countrynamechinese: 约旦
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 约旦
harvest_countrynamedutch: Jordanië
harvest_countrynamefrench: Jordanie
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Jordanie
harvest_countrynamegerman: Jordanien
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Jordanien
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Yordania
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Yordania
harvest_countrynameitalian: Giordania
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Giordania
harvest_countrynamekorean: 요르단
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 요르단
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Jordan
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Jordan
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Jordânia
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Jordânia
harvest_countrynamerussian: Иордания
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Иордания
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harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/jordan/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
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harvest_v59country: Y
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harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-jordan
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harvest_pray1040url: https://pray1040.com/pray-for-jordan/
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harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://www.bsoj.org/
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harvest_stonyground: Y
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harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00