| Anatolian Arabic | |
|---|---|
| لهجات عربية أناضولية | |
| Native to | Turkey |
| Ethnicity | Mhallami |
Native speakers | 520,000 (2014)[1] |
| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | anat1256 |
| ELP | Siirti Arabic |
 Map of Anatolian Arabic speaking provinces in Turkey as of 1965 census | |
Anatolian Arabic encompasses several qeltu varieties of Arabic spoken in the Turkish provinces of Mardin, Siirt, Batman, Diyarbakır, and Muş, a subset of North Mesopotamian Arabic.[2] Since most Jews and Christians have left the area, the vast majority of remaining speakers are Sunni Muslims and the bulk live in the Mardin area. Most speakers also know Turkish and many, especially those from mixed Kurdish-Arab villages, speak Kurdish. Especially in isolated areas, the language has been significantly influenced by Turkish, Kurdish, and historically Turoyo (the latter in the western dialect area).[3]
The Mardin dialect is mutually intelligible with the Moslawi dialect of Iraq. However, the peripheral varieties in the Siirt, Muş, and Batman provinces near Lake Van are quite divergent.
Mesopotamian Arabic is spoken to the west by about 100,000 people in Sanliurfa Province, while North Levantine Arabic has over a million speakers in the Adana, Hatay, and Mersin provinces.[citation needed] Anatolian Arabic is not mutually intelligible with the Urfa dialect.[3]
- ^ Anatolian Arabic at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020)
- ^ "Anatolian Arabic". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
- ^ a b Procházka, Stephan (2018). "The Arabic dialects of eastern Anatolia". The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia. De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 978-3-11-042168-2.
