Standard Arabic in Iraq

Speakers

31

Type

Location

Standard Arabic in Iraq

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Standard Arabic in Iraq

Size

31

Standard Arabic language  is used for official purposes

    Mesopotamian Arabic is spoken dialects

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
Yes
Indigenous language
Yes

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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4. Users

Size / Number of users

Number of users

31
Source
Iraqi planning ministry
Year
2018

Users within total population

73.00000
More than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

73
Source
Iraqi planning ministry
Year
2018

Users within the reference community

More than 50% use the language
Actual percentage
71
Source
Iraqi planning ministry
Year
2018

Age distribution of users

24
62
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

Iraqi planning ministry

Year
2018

Generational use

15
17
32
All generations
Source

Iraqi planning ministry

Year
2018

Educational attainment

5
6
7
Early childhood education
Source

Iraqi planning ministry

Year
2018
5
6
Tertiary education
Source

Iraqi planning ministry

Year
2018
4
6
Tertiary education
Source

Iraqi planning ministry

Year
2018

Occupational qualifications

5
5

Language competence

5
5
25
Understand all, speak/sign fluently
Year
2018
Source

Iraqi planning ministry

Literacy of users

48
52
More than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Actual percentage
58
Source

Iraqi planning ministry

Year
2018

Digital use

5
5
More than 50% digital users of the language
Actual percentage
53
Source

Iraqi planning ministry

Year
2018

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
Iraqi planning ministry

Economic dimension

Economic scope
  • Quinary sector
  • Quaternary sector
  • Tertiary sector
  • Secondary sector
  • Primary sector
  • Language not used

Information, communication and cultural production

Digital sphere

  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name

Completion