Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken

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A language of Iraq

ISO 639-3
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Alternate Names
Arabic, Baghdadi, Furati, Iraqi Arabic, Mesopotamian Gelet Arabic
Autonym
اللهجة العراقية‎ (allahjat aleiraqia)
User Population

16,000,000 in Iraq (2020). Total users in all countries: 19,063,530.

Location

Widespread. (Tigris and Euphrates area, southeast from Baghdad to Kuwait and Persian Gulf; An Anbar governorate: Al-Q’aim district, small area).

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Language Status

3 (Wider communication). De facto national working language.

Classification
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
Dialects

Geographical and sectarian divisions correlate with Iraqi dialects. The vernacular standard based on Baghdad speech. Also Bedouin dialects. Nearly unintelligible to speakers of certain other vernacular Arabic varieties. Anatolian Cluster in Turkey. A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara].

Typology

SVO; 32 consonant phonemes.

Language Use

Used as L2 by Judeo-Iraqi Arabic [yhd], Mandaic [mid], Western Armenian [hyw].

Language Development

Radio. TV. Grammar. NT: 2005.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken
Writing

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab].

Other Comments

Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Yezidi.

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