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ISO 639-3 · acmacm
Afroasiatic family
Mesopotamian Arabic
لهجة عراقية
Mesopotamian Arabic is a language of the Semitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Iran, Iraq and Syria. Wikidata counts 15.7 m first-language speakers (2019). Wikidata describes it as “continuum of mutually-intelligible varieties of Arabic”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
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15.7 mfirst-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
1scripts
2levels in the tree
3EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Mesopotamian Arabic · لهجة عراقية |
|---|---|
| Also called | Mesopotamian Arabic |
| L1 speakers | 15,700,000 (2019) |
| Written in | Arabic script |
Vitality
EGIDS 3 Wider Communication3
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Mesopotamian Arabic
The branches above Mesopotamian Arabic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Iran
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