Mesopotamian Arabic

Mesopotamian Arabic
Iraqi Arabic
اللهجة العراقية
Native to	Iraq (Mesopotamia), Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, parts of northern and eastern Arabia
Region	Mesopotamia, 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)[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
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: acm – Gelet ayp – Qeltu yhd – Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Glottolog	meso1252 nort3142
Areas where Mesopotamian Arabic is widely spoken (dark blue: majority tongue).[image reference needed]
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Mesopotamian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين), also known as Iraqi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة العراقية), or just as Iraqi (Arabic: عراقي), is a group of varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq, as well as in Syria, southeastern Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and Iraqi diaspora communities.^[2]