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Languages of Iraq. There are a number of languages spoken in Iraq, but Mesopotamian Arabic (Iraqi Arabic) is by far the most widely spoken in the country.
Ethnologue breaks up Kurdish into three large groups: Central Kurdish (Kurdi, Sorani) is spoken by 3.5 million people in Iraq and by 3.2 million in Iran. It is also spoken in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkmenistan (Ethnologue). The total population of speakers of Central Kurdish is estimated at 6.8 million speakers (Ethnologue). There are 10 varieties of Central Kurdish.