[7] However, sedentary Christians and Jews were spared and northern Iraq was untouched.

[7] In southern Iraq, sedentary Muslims were gradually replaced by Bedouins from the countryside.

[7] Qeltu dialects include:[6] The peripheral Anatolian Arabic varieties in Siirt, Muş and Batman are quite divergent.

[citation needed] Cypriot Arabic shares a number of common features with North Mesopotamian Arabic, and one of its pre-Cypriot medieval antecedents has been deduced as belonging to this dialect area.

[11][12] However, its current form is a hybrid of different varieties and languages, including Levantine Arabic and Greek.