North Mesopotamian Arabic (also known as Moslawi
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Mesopotamian Arabic spoken north of the Hamrin Mountains in Iraq, in western Iran, northern Syria, and in southeastern Turkey (in the eastern Mediterranean Region, Turkey, Mediterranean Region,
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, and southern
Eastern Anatolia Region). as well as in Southern Iraq by Christians and Jews. The peripheral Turkish varieties in
Siirt,
Muş and
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are quite divergent. (See
Anatolian Arabic.) Like other
Mesopotamian Arabic varieties and
Levantine Arabic, it shows signs of an
Aramaic
The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated i ...
substrate.
[R. J. al-Mawsely, ''al-Athar, al-Aramiyyah fi lughat al-Mawsil al-amiyyah'' (Lexicon: Aramaic in the popular language of Mosul): Baghdad 1963]
Cypriot Arabic
Cypriot Arabic ( ar, العربية القبرصية), also known as Cypriot Maronite Arabic or Sanna, is a moribund variety of Arabic spoken by the Maronite community of Cyprus. Formerly speakers were mostly situated in Kormakitis, but foll ...
shares a number of common features with North Mesopotamian Arabic, and one of its pre-Cypriot medieval antecedents has been deduced as belonging to this dialect area.
However, its current form is a hybrid of different varieties and languages, including Levantine Arabic and
Greek.
See also
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Varieties of Arabic
The varieties (or dialects or vernacular languages) of Arabic, a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family originating in the Arabian Peninsula, are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. There are considerable vari ...
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Mesopotamian Arabic
References
External links
George Grigore: The Spoken Arabic of MardinGeorge Grigore and Gabriel Bițună: Common Features of North Mesopotamian Arabic Dialects Spoken in Turkey
Arabic languages
Mashriqi Arabic
Languages of Iraq
Languages of Iran
Languages of Syria
Languages of Turkey
Mesopotamian Arabic
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