North Mesopotamian Arabic

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North Mesopotamian Arabic
Spoken in: Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Total speakers: 6,300,000
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  West Semitic
   Central Semitic
    South Central Semitic
     Arabic
      North Mesopotamian Arabic 
Writing system: Arabic alphabet 
Official status
Official language in: none
Regulated by: none
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: ayp

North Mesopotamian Arabic (also known as Syro-Mesopotamian Arabic, Moslawi) is a variety of Arabic spoken in the Mespotamian basin north of Baghdad in Iraq, in far eastern Syria, and in Mardin(Center , Midyat , Ömerli , Yeşilli , Savur), Siirt (Center , Aydınlar), Şanlıurfa (Akçakale , Harran...), Gaziantep, Antakya, Adana ,Mersin, Muş (Hasköy) , Bitlis (Mutki...) provinces of Turkey. [1]

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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