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Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken
A language of Iraq
ISO 639-3: ayp
Population |
5,400,000 in Iraq (1992). Population total all countries: 6,300,000. |
Region |
Tigris, part of the Euphrates valleys north of Baghdad. Also in Jordan, Syria, Turkey (Asia). |
Language map |
Iraq
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Alternate names |
Mesopotamian Qeltu Arabic, Moslawi, Syro-Mesopotamian Vernacular Arabic |
Dialects |
Very similar to Judeo-Iraqi Arabic [yhd], but with important sociolinguistic differences. |
Classification |
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara] (Saudi Arabia). |
Comments |
Muslim, Christian. |
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