Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic

Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic
Gilit Arabic
اللهجة العراقية
Native toIraq, Iran, Syria[1]
Speakers17 million (2020–2023)[1]
Dialects
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3acm Mesopotamian Arabic
Glottologmeso1252

Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic,[2] also known as Iraqi Arabic,[2] Mesopotamian Gelet Arabic,[1] or simply Mesopotamian Arabic[2] is one of the two main varieties of Mesopotamian Arabic, together with North Mesopotamian Arabic.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b c Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b c "Glottolog 4.7 - Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  3. ^ Hassan, Qasim. "Reconsidering the Lexical Features of the south-Mesopotamian Dialects." Folia Orientalia 56 (2019).
  4. ^ Jasim, Maha Ibrahim (2020). Tafxi:m in the vowels of Muslawi Qeltu and Baghdadi Gilit dialects of Mesopotamian Arabic (Thesis thesis). Newcastle University.