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Qeltu
North Mesopotamian Arabic (also known as Moslawi a variety of Mesopotamian Arabic">Mosul'">Mosul.html" ;"title="eaning 'of Mosul">eaning 'of Mosul'or Mesopotamian Qeltu Arabic) is Varieties of Arabic">a variety of 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, Southeastern Anatolia Region, and southern Eastern Anatolia Region). as well as in Southern Iraq by Christians and Jews. The peripheral Turkish varieties in Siirt, Muş and Batman are quite divergent. (See Anatolian Arabic.) Like other Mesopotamian Arabic varieties and Levantine Arabic, it shows signs of an Aramaic 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 shares a number of common features with North Mesopotamian Arabic, and one of its pre-Cypriot medieva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesopotamian Arabic
Mesopotamian Arabic, ( ar, لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين) also known as Iraqi Arabic ( ar, اللهجة العراقية), or Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic (as opposed to Qeltu Mesopotamian Arabic) is a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of Arabic native to the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq as well as spanning into southeastern Turkey, Iran, Syria, Kuwait, and spoken in Iraqi diaspora communities. Mesopotamian Arabic has a Syriac-Aramaic substrate, and also shares significant influences from ancient Mesopotamian languages of Sumerian and Akkadian, as well as influences from Persian, Turkish, and Greek. Mesopotamian Arabic is said to be the most Syriac-Aramaic influenced dialect of Arabic, due to Syriac-Aramaic having originated in Mesopotamia, and spread throughout the Middle East (Fertile Crescent) during the Neo-Assyrian period, eventually becoming the lingua franca of the entire region before Islam. Mesopotamian Arabs and Assyrians are the largest Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |