Iraqi Arabic
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| Iraqi Arabic | ||
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| Spoken in: | Iraq, Iran, Syria | |
| Total speakers: | 15,100,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Iraqi Arabic |
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| Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | none | |
| Regulated by: | none | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | acm | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Iraqi Arabic (also known as Mesopotamian Arabic [ISO 639-3], Mesopotamian Qeltu Arabic, Mesopotamian Gelet Arabic, Baghdadi Arabic, Furati, 'Arabi, Arabi, North Syrian Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken in the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq south of Baghdad as well as in neighboring Iran and eastern Syria. Dialect clusters include the Anatolian cluster, the Tigris Cluster, and the Euphrates cluster. There are also Jewish and Christian sectarian dialects as well as Bedouin dialects. This variety of Arabic is not to be confused with North Mesopotamian Arabic.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] References
- Ethnologue entry for Mesopotamian Arabic
- H. Blanc. 1964. Communal Dialects in Baghdad. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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