Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 ayp
North Mesopotamian Arabic Language لهجة موصلية
North Mesopotamian Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 10 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where North Mesopotamian Arabic is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak North Mesopotamian Arabic
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabian
- Arabic
- Eastern Arabic
- Qeltu
- North Mesopotamian Arabic
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the North Mesopotamian Arabic language
North Mesopotamian Arabic (لهجة موصلية) is spoken by about 10 million people, which makes it the 118th most spoken language in the world — just behind Tigrinya (10 million) and ahead of Swiss German (10 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Qeltu group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is North Mesopotamian Arabic spoken?
North Mesopotamian Arabic is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Iraq (10 million).
North Mesopotamian Arabic is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
North 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 Mesopotamian Arabic, Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Algerian Arabic, Sudanese Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ayp.
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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.