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IRAQ
- Current Issues
- Country Background, Politics & Law
- Human Rights Issues
- Security, Humanitarian Issues and Protection Related Issues
- Northern Iraq
Country Background
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Politics & Law
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08.2003 - Source:
Languages in Iraq ("Ethnologue.com: Languages in Iraq") [ID 9842]
"Republic of Iraq, al Jumhouriya al'Iraqia. National or official languages: Standard Arabic, Kurdi. 21,800,000 (1998 UN). Literacy rate 60% to 70%. Also includes Egyptian Spoken Arabic 450,000, Mandaic, Syriac, Turkish 3,000, Turkmen 227,000, Turoyo 3,000."
Document(s):
Ethnologue.com: Languages in Iraq