Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken

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A language of Iraq

ISO 639-3
ayp
Alternate Names
Maslawi, Mesopotamian Qeltu Arabic, Moslawi, Syro-Mesopotamian Vernacular Arabic
Autonym
مصلاوي‎ (Maslawi)
User Population

8,900,000 in Iraq (2020). Total users in all countries: 10,252,460.

Location

Al Anbar, Arbil, As Sulaymaniyah, Diyala, Kirkuk, Ninawa, and Salah ad Din governorates: Tigris and Euphrates valleys north of Baghdad; An Najaf, Al Qadisiyah, and Babil governorates: border area northeast of An-Najaf.

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Language Status

6a* (Vigorous). De facto language of provincial identity in Kurdistan Region.

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

Mardini Aramaic (Abdul-Massih, Jesrawi, Mardilli, Mardini), Tigris Group, Euphrates Group, Kurdistan Group. Reportedly very similar to Judeo-Iraqi Arabic [yhd], but has important sociolinguistic differences. A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara].

Language Use

Used as L2 by Macho [hac], Shabak [sdb].

Language Development

Grammar. NT: 2012.

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

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab].

Other Comments

Muslim, Christian.

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