Iraqi Arabic
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Iraqi Arabic عراقية ʿIrāqī Pronunciation [ɪˈrɑːki] Spoken in 
Iraq
Syria
Iran
TurkeyRegion Mesopotamia
Armenia
CiliciaNative speakers 35,731,260 (2011 est.) (date missing) Language family Afro-Asiatic- Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabic
- Mesopotamian Arabic
- Iraqi Arabic
- Mesopotamian Arabic
- Arabic
- Central Semitic
Dialects Writing system Arabic alphabet Official status Official language in IraqRegulated by Iraqi Academy of Sciences Language codes ISO 639-3 acm This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. Iraqi Arabic (also known as Mesopotamian Arabic) is a continuum of mutually intelligible Arabic varieties native to the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq as well as spanning into eastern and northern Syria,[1] western Iran,[1] southeastern Turkey,[2] and spoken in respective Iraqi diaspora communities.
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Varieties
Iraqi Arabic has two major varieties. A distinction is recognised between Mesopotamian Gelet Arabic and Mesopotamian Qeltu Arabic, the appellations deriving from the form of the word for "I said".[3]
The southern Gelet group includes a Tigris dialect cluster, of which the best-known form is Baghdadi Arabic, and a Euphrates dialect cluster, known as Furati (Euphrates Arabic). The Gelet variety is also spoken in the Khuzestan Province of Iran.[1]
The northern Qeltu group includes the north Tigris dialect cluster, also known as North Mesopotamian Arabic or Maslawi (Mosul Arabic), as well as both Jewish and Christian sectarian dialects (such as Baghdad Jewish Arabic).
Distribution
Both the Gelet and the Qeltu varieties of Iraqi Arabic are spoken in eastern Syria,[1][2] the former is spoken on the Euphrates east of Ar-Raqqah, and the latter is spoken in the Khabur valley and along the Syrian-Turkish border; where it is also spoken throughout southeast Turkey.[2]
Cypriot Arabic shares a large number of common features with Mesopotamian Arabic;[4] particularly the northern variety, and has been reckoned as belonging to this dialect area.[5]
History
Aramaic was the lingua franca in Mesopotamia from the early 1st millennium BCE until the late 1st millennium CE, and as may be expected; Iraqi Arabic shows signs of an Aramaic substrate.[6] The Gelet variety has retained features of Babylonian Aramaic.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d Arabic, Mesopotamian | Ethnologue
- ^ a b c Arabic, North Mesopotamian | Ethnologue
- ^ Mitchell, T. F. (1990). Pronouncing Arabic, Volume 2. Clarendon Press. p. 37. ISBN 0198239890.
- ^ Versteegh, Kees (2001). The Arabic Language. Edinburgh University Press. p. 212. ISBN 0748614362.
- ^ Owens, Jonathan (2006). A Linguistic History of Arabic. Oxford University Press. p. 274. ISBN 0199290822.
- ^ a b Muller-Kessler, Christa (Jul. - Sep. 2003). "Aramaic 'K', Lyk' and Iraqi Arabic 'Aku, Maku: The Mesopotamian Particles of Existence.". The Journal of the American Oriental Society 123 (3): 641–646.
- H. Blanc. 1964. Communal Dialects in Baghdad. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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