Mesopotamian Arabic
| Mesopotamian Arabic | |
|---|---|
| al-lahja al-ʿirāqiyya | |
| اللهجة العراقية | |
| Native to | Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran |
| Region | Mesopotamia, Khuzestan, 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) Qeltu/North (ayp): 10 million (2020) |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Dialects | |
| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:acm – Geletayp – Qeltuyhd – Judeo-Iraqi Arabic |
| Glottolog | meso1252nort3142 |
Areas where Mesopotamian Arabic is widely spoken (dark blue: majority tongue). | |
Mesopotamian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين), also known as Iraqi Arabic or the Iraqi dialect (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.