Anatolian Arabic is several qǝltu varieties of Arabic spoken in the Turkish provinces of Mardin, Siirt, Batman, Diyarbakır, and Muş, a subset of North Mesopotamian Arabic.[2] Since most Jews and Christians have left the area, the vast majority of remaining speakers are Sunni Muslims and the bulk live in the Mardin area. Most speakers also know Turkish and many, especially those from mixed Kurdish-Arab villages, speak Kurdish. Especially in isolated areas, the language has been significantly influenced by Turkish, Kurdish, and historically Turoyo (the latter in the western dialect area).[3]

Anatolian Arabic
لهجات عربية أناضولية
Native to	Turkey
Native speakers	520,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic North Mesopotamian Arabic Anatolian Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	anat1256
ELP	Siirti Arabic
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.^{[citation needed]} Anatolian Arabic is not mutually intelligible with the Urfa dialect.[3]

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