Mesopotamian Arabic

Mesopotamian Arabic
Mesopotamian Arabic
al-lahǧah al-ʿirāqiyyah
اللهجة العراقية
	al-lahja al-ʿirāqiyya 'the Iraqi dialect'; written in Arabic calligraphy (Naskh)
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)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Gelet; Qeltu; Judeo-Iraqi;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; acm – Gelet; ayp – Qeltu; yhd – Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Glottolog	meso1252; nort3142
	Areas where Mesopotamian Arabic is widely spoken (dark blue: majority tongue) (light blue: minority 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), are the varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq as well as parts of Syria, southeastern Turkey, Iran, and Kuwait and in Iraqi diaspora communities.