Home›Critically endangered languages›زبان مندائی🌐فارسیEnglishBahasa IndonesiaDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoNederlandsPolskiPortuguêsSvenskaTürkçeРусскийالعربيةفارسیไทย한국어中文日本語EntityQ33500· pop 35· linked from 497 articlesزبان مندائیAlso known as Mandaic language, Mandāyì, Raṭnālanguage of the Mandaean religion and communityKey factsNative toIraq and IranRegionIraq: Baghdad , Basra ; Iran: KhuzistanEthnicityMandaeansNative speakers(5,500 cited 2001–2006)Language familyAfro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Southeastern MandaicEarly formsProto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Old Aramaic Middle Aramaic Eastern Middle AramaicWriting systemMandaic alphabetIso 639 3Either:, mid – Mandaic, myz – Classical MandaicLinguist listmid Neo-MandaicGlottologmand1468 , nucl1706 , clas1253via Wikipedia infoboxWikidata factsShow 1 more factAvailable in 35 languagesEspañolFrançaisDeutsch中文日本語РусскийPortuguêsItalianoالعربيةAsturianBahasa IndonesiaConnectionsAramaicEntityKhuzestan ProvinceEntityCategoriesCritically endangered languagesEastern Aramaic languagesLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 18Language articles with Linglist codeLanguage articles with old Ethnologue 18 speaker dataLanguages of IranLanguages of IraqMandaic languageSacred languages