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 | |
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لهجات عربية أناضولية | |
Native to | Turkey |
Native speakers | 520,000 (2014)[1] |
Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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Writing system | Arabic alphabet |
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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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