Iraqi Arabic

Also known as Mesopotamian Arabic

continuum of mutually-intelligible varieties of Arabic

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Within Vinony's link graph, Iraqi Arabic is referenced by 588 other articles, and connects out to North Mesopotamian Arabic, Arabic and Mosul.

Vinony files it under ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue, Language articles citing Ethnologue 27 and Mesopotamian Arabic.

Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.

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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Wikidata facts

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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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Encyclopedic overview

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.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iraqi Arabic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.