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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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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