North Mesopotamian Arabic (also known as Moslawi eaning_'of_Mosul'.html"_;"title="Mosul.html"_;"title="eaning_'of_Mosul">eaning_'of_Mosul'">Mosul.html"_;"title="eaning_'of_Mosul">eaning_'of_Mosul'or_Mesopotamian_Qeltu_Arabic)_is_Varieties_of_Arabic.html" ;"title="Mosul">eaning_'of_Mosul'.html" ;"title="Mosul.html" ;"title="eaning 'of Mosul">eaning 'of Mosul'">Mosul.html" ;"title="eaning 'of Mosul">eaning 'of Mosul'or Mesopotamian Qeltu Arabic) is Varieties of Arabic">a variety of

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 intelligi ...

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 The Southeastern Anatolia Region ( tr, Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. The most populous city in the region is Gaziantep. Other examples of big cities are Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır, Mardin and Adıyaman. It ...

, and southern

Eastern Anatolia Region The Eastern Anatolia Region ('' tr, Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi'') is a geographical region of Turkey. The most populous province in the region is Van Province. Other populous provinces are Malatya, Erzurum and Elazığ. It is bordered by the Black S ...

). as well as in Southern Iraq by Christians and Jews. The peripheral Turkish varieties in

Siirt Siirt ( ar, سِعِرْد, Siʿird; hy, Սղերդ, S'gherd; syr, ܣܥܪܬ, Siirt; ku, Sêrt) is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of Siirt Province. The population of the city according to the 2009 census was 129,188. History P ...

Muş Muş (; hy, Մուշ; ku, Mûş) is a city and the provincial capital of Muş Province in Turkey. Its population is mostly Kurds. Etymology Various explanations of the origin of Muş's name exist. Its name is sometimes associated with the Arm ...

and Batman are quite divergent. (See Anatolian Arabic.) Like other

varieties and

Levantine Arabic Levantine Arabic, also called Shami ( autonym: or ), is a group of mutually intelligible vernacular Arabic varieties spoken in the Levant, in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Turkey (historically in Adana, Mersin and Hatay on ...

, 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 in ...

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 followi ...

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 Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

References

External links

George Grigore: The Spoken Arabic of Mardin

George 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 {{Turkey-stub

See also

References

External links