North Mesopotamian Arabic

Facts

Language: North Mesopotamian Arabic
Alternate names: Mesopotamian Arabic, Anatolian Arabic
Language code: ayp
Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic (SIL classification)
Number of speakers: 140,000
Vulnerability: risk
Script: Arabic script.

More information:

Muslim, Christian.

Jastrow (2006) notes that the four dialect groups are not mutually intelligible with one another and that speakers from different areas use Turkish to communicate.