Languages of Iraq

Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as ( "the eloquent Arabic") or simply '''' ().

Western Iranian language

Oghuz Turkic language

language of Kurds

Northeast Caucasian language spoken mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people

one of the official languages of the Republic of Adygea in Russia

dialect of Middle Aramaic

Northwest Caucasian language

Dravidian language spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Kurdish language spoken in Iraq and Iran

Kurmanji (, ), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions. It is the most widely spoken form of Kurdish.

one of the two languages of the Armenian language branch

Neo-Aramaic dialect

variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia around the coasts of the Persian Gulf

language

language of the Mandaean religion and community

dialect of Arabic from central Arabia

modern varieties of the Aramaic language

Middle Aramaic language once used by Jewish writers in Lower Mesopotamia

Judeo-Arabic variety of Iraqi Jews

North-Western Iranian language family branch spoken mainly by Kurds

Indo-Iranian language of the Northwestern Iranian subgroup Zaza-Gorani

dialect of the Persian language

language

modern Jewish Aramaic language

languages of a geographic region

Neo-Mandaic, also known as Modern Mandaic, sometimes called the "ratna" ( "jargon"), is the modern reflex of the Mandaic language, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran. Although severely endangered, it survives as the first language of a small number of Mandaeans (possibly as few as 100–200 speakers) in Iran and in the Mandaean diaspora. All Neo-Mandaic speakers are multilingual in the languages of their neighbors, Arabic and Persian, and the influence of these languages upon the grammar of Neo-Mandaic is considerable, particularly in the lexicon a

language

Arabic dialect spoken by Jews in Baghdad

pre-WWI Neo-Aramaic dialects

variety of Mesopotamian Arabic spoken in Baghdad, Iraq

Deaf sign language of Iraq