Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic

Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic
Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic
Gilit Arabic
اللهجة العراقية
Native to	Iraq, Iran, Syria
Speakers	17 million (2020–2023)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Baghdadi Arabic; Shawi Arabic; Khuzestani Arabic; South Mesopotamian Arabic;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	acm Mesopotamian Arabic
Glottolog	meso1252

Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic,^[2] also known as Iraqi Arabic,^[2] Mesopotamian Gelet Arabic,^[1] or simply Mesopotamian Arabic^[2] is one of the two main varieties of Mesopotamian Arabic, together with North Mesopotamian Arabic.^[3]^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ ^a ^b ^c "Glottolog 4.7 - Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
^ Hassan, Qasim. "Reconsidering the Lexical Features of the south-Mesopotamian Dialects." Folia Orientalia 56 (2019).
^ Jasim, Maha Ibrahim (2020). Tafxi:m in the vowels of Muslawi Qeltu and Baghdadi Gilit dialects of Mesopotamian Arabic (Thesis thesis). Newcastle University.