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Iraqi Arabic also known as Mesopotamian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين) is a group of varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq as well as spanning into southeastern Turkey, Iran, Syria, Kuwait, and spoken in Iraqi diaspora communities, as well as parts of northern and eastern Arabia. There are 2 main dialects of Mesopotamian Arabic: Gilt, spoken by approximately 19 million native speakers of Iraqi Arabic in the south regions and Qeltu dialect spoken by 10 million native speakers in the north regions. The 2 dialect names derive from the form of the word for "I said" in each variety.

Gilit Arabic is a Bedouin variety spoken by Muslims (both sedentary and non-sedentary) in central and southern Iraq and by nomads in the rest of Iraq. Qeltu Arabic is an urban dialect spoken by Non-Muslims of central and southern Iraq (including Baghdad) and by the sedentary population (both Muslims and Non-Muslims) of the rest of the country. Non-Muslims include Christians, Yazidis, and Jews, until most of them left Iraq in the 1940s–1950s. Geographically, the gelet–qeltu classification roughly corresponds to respectively Upper Mesopotamia and Lower Mesopotamia. The isogloss is between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, around Fallujah and Samarra.

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