Continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of Arabic
Mesopotamian Arabic
Iraqi Arabic
اللهجة العراقية
Native to
Iraq (Mesopotamia), Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Jordan, parts of northern and eastern Arabia
Region
Mesopotamia, Cilicia
Ethnicity
Mainly Iraqi Arabs also used as an L1 or L2 by non Arab communities in the region
Speakers
Gelet/South (acm): 17 million (2020)[1] Qeltu/North (ayp): 10 million (2020)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabic
Mesopotamian Arabic
Dialects
Gelet
Qeltu
Writing system
Arabic alphabet
Signed forms
Iraqi Sign
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Either: acm – Gelet ayp – Qeltu
Glottolog
meso1252 nort3142
Areas where Mesopotamian Arabic are widely spoken.[image reference needed]
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Mesopotamian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين) or Iraqi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة العراقية) is a group of varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq, as well as in Syria, Kuwait, southeastern Turkey, Iran, and Iraqi diaspora communities.[2]
^ abGelet at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Qeltu at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Enam al-Wer, Rudolf Erik de Jong, ed. (2009). Arabic Dialectology: In Honour of Clive Holes on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Vol. 53. Brill. pp. 99–100. ISBN 9789047425595.
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