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Iraqis

Иракцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
34,532
Islamic Republic of Iran, census 2016 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Islamic Republic of Iran: 34,532 people in the 2016 census.

Main language: Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Islamic Republic of Iran2016 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Iraqi» · [1]
34,532

Languages and their lineage

Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Arabianarab1394
  6. Arabicarab1395
  7. Eastern Arabiceast2729
  8. Gilit Mesopotamian Arabicmeso1252

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsEmiratisBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleArabsAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Iran (Islamic Republic of), Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)