Anatolian Arabic
Anatolian Arabic is any of several varieties of Arabic spoken in Turkey. They are dialects of North Mesopotamian Arabic spoken in the Eastern Anatolia, an area comprising the Turkish provinces of Mardin, Siirt, Batman, Diyarbakır, and Muş.[3]
| Anatolian Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Siirti Arabic | |
| Native to | Turkey |
Native speakers | 520,000 (2014)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | anat1256 |
| ELP | Siirti Arabic[2] |
 Map of Anatolian Arabic speaking provinces in Turkey as of 1965 census | |
Mardin dialect is mutually intelligible with Moslawi dialect in Iraq. However, the peripheral varieties in Siirt, Muş and Batman provinces near Lake Van are quite divergent.
Mesopotamian Arabic is spoken to the west, by about 100,000 people in Sanliurfa Province, as well as North Levantine Arabic with over a million speakers in Adana, Hatay and Mersin provinces.
References
- Anatolian Arabic at Ethnologue (23nd ed., 2020)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Siirti Arabic.
- "Anatolian Arabic". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
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