Iraqi Arabic

Also known as Mesopotamian Arabic

continuum of mutually-intelligible varieties of Arabic

Key facts

Native to: Iraq , Syria , Turkey , Iran
Region: Mesopotamia , Khuzestan , Cilicia
Ethnicity: Mainly Iraqi Arabs also used as a L2 language by non Arab communities in the region
Speakers: Gelet/South (acm): 17 million (2020) , Qeltu/North (ayp): 10 million (2020)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic
Dialects: Gelet Qeltu Judeo-Iraqi
Writing system: Arabic alphabet
Iso 639 3: Variously:, acm – Gelet , ayp – Qeltu , yhd – Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Glottolog: meso1252 , nort3142

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native label: لهجة عراقية
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ACM
P10369: Tipula (Hesperotipula) sweetae
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 15700000
Wikimedia language code: acm
entry in abbreviations table: Ir.

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Mesopotamian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين), also known as Iraqi Arabic or the Iraqi dialect (Arabic: اللهجة العراقية), or just as Iraqi (Arabic: عراقي), are the varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq as well as parts of Syria, southeastern Turkey, Iran, and Kuwait and in Iraqi diaspora communities.

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