Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 acm
Mesopotamian Arabic Language لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين
Mesopotamian Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 17 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Mesopotamian Arabic is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Mesopotamian Arabic
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabian
- Arabic
- Eastern Arabic
- Mesopotamian Arabic
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Mesopotamian Arabic language
Mesopotamian Arabic (لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين) is spoken by about 17 million people, which makes it the 73rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Lingala (20 million) and ahead of Assamese (17 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Eastern Arabic group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is Mesopotamian Arabic spoken?
Mesopotamian Arabic is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Iraq (17 million).
Mesopotamian Arabic is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Mesopotamian Arabic is written in the Perso-Arabic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are North Mesopotamian Arabic, Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Algerian Arabic, Sudanese Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 acm.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.