North Mesopotamian Arabic

North Mesopotamian Arabic
Native to	Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus
Native speakers	6.3 million (1992)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic North Mesopotamian Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`ayp`
Glottolog	`nort3142`^[2]

North Mesopotamian Arabic (also known as Maslawi, meaning 'of Mosul') is a variety of Arabic spoken north of the Hamrin Mountains in Iraq, in western Iran, northern Syria, and in southeastern Turkey (in the eastern Mediterranean Region, Southeastern Anatolia Region, and southern Eastern Anatolia Region).^[3] Like other Mesopotamian Arabics and Levantine Arabic, it shows signs of an Aramaic substrate.^[4]

Different Arabic dialects in the Arab world

Cypriot Arabic shares a large number of common features with Mesopotamian Arabic;^[5] particularly the northern variety, and has been reckoned as belonging to this dialect area.^[6]

References

^ North Mesopotamian Arabic at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "North Mesopotamian Arabic". Glottolog 2.2. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^ R. J. al-Mawsely, al-Athar, al-Aramiyyah fi lughat al-Mawsil al-amiyyah (Lexicon: Aramaic in the popular language of Mosul): Baghdad 1963
^ Versteegh, Kees (2001). The Arabic Language.

^ Owens, Jonathan (2006). A Linguistic History of Arabic.

External links

George Grigore: The Spoken Arabic of Mardin

Varieties of Arabic

Pre-Islamic	Ancient North Arabian Dadanitic Dispersed Oasis North Arabian Dumaitic Hasaitic Hismaic Safaitic Taymanitic Thamudic Classical

Modern literary	Modern Standard Arabic Maltese

Maghreb	Algerian Darija Hassānīya Jebli Jijel Libyan Maltese Moroccan Saharan Sicilian Tunisian

Iberia	Andalusian

Levant	Bedawi Cypriot Maronite Jordanian Syrian North Syrian Lebanese Palestinian

Mesopotamia	Mesopotamian Baghdadi Khuzestani North Mesopotamian

Arabian Peninsula	Saudi Bareqi Hejazi Najdi Gulf Bahraini Omani Shihhi Dhofari Kuwaiti Yemeni Tihamiyya Hadhrami Ta'izzi-Adeni

Nile Valley	Egyptian Sa'idi Sudanese

Peripheral	Central Asian Chadian Shirvani

Judeo-Arabic	Judeo-Iraqi Judeo-Baghdadi Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian Judeo-Yemeni

Creoles and pidgins	Babalia Juba Nubi [pidgins] Maridi Turku

Italics indicate extinct languages.

Iraq topics

History

Ancient	Sumer Akkadian Empire Babylonia Assyria Neo-Assyrian Empire Neo-Babylonian Empire Achaemenid Assyria Seleucid Babylonia Parthian Babylonia Sassanid Asorestan

638–1958	Muslim conquest of Persia Abbasid Caliphate Ottoman Iraq (Mamluk dynasty) Mandatory Iraq Kingdom of Iraq Arab Federation

Republic	1958–68 1968–2003 2003–11 2011–present Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (Regional Command National Command) Saddam Hussein Iran–Iraq War Invasion of Kuwait Gulf War Sanctions Iraq War U.S. invasion Iraqi insurgency U.S. troop withdrawal 2011–present insurgency

Geography

Al-Faw Peninsula Al-Jazira Districts Euphrates Governorates Hamrin Mountains Persian Gulf Islands Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Marshes Places Shatt al-Arab Syrian Desert Tigris Umm Qasr Zagros Mountains

Lakes	Habbaniyah Hammar Milh Tharthar

Politics

Economy

Society

Cuisine Culture Education schools Health hospitals Media Music Sports

Demographics	Iraqi people diaspora Languages Arabic Aramaic Kurdish Persian Turkmen Minorities Armenians Assyrians Circassians Kurds Mandaeans Persians Turkmen Religion Islam Christianity Mandaeism

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North Mesopotamian Arabic