Did you know North Mesopotamian Arabic is at risk?

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mesopotamian Arabic, Anatolian Arabic
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, West, Central, Arabic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ayp
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Jastrow (2006) notes that the four dialect groups are not mutually intelligible with one another and that speakers from different areas use Turkish to communicate.

MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The total ethnic population of Arabs in Turkey is between 875,407 and 1,909,979 according Ali Tayyar Önder (2008), including roughly 666,257 in Hatay province, of whom many speak dialects properly classified as Syrian rather than Anatolian."

North Mesopotamian Arabic

			2		In press	The Middle East and North Africa	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages			Christopher Moseley											Charles G. Häberl										"The total ethnic population of Arabs in Turkey is between 875,407 and 1,909,979 according Ali Tayyar Önder (2008), including roughly 666,257 in Hatay province, of whom many speak dialects properly classified as Syrian rather than Anatolian."					Syrian															Turkey	Şırnak, Mardin, and Siirt provinces.
					1997	The Arabic Language		213-215				Columbia University Press									C. H. M Versteegh; Kees Versteegh							140,000		100000													At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)								Turkey