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Iraqis

January 01, 1970

Iraqis (Arabic: العراقيون) are people who originate from the country of Iraq.[24]

Iraqis
العراقيون
Map of the Iraqi diaspora in the world including descendants
Total population
50+ million worldwide
Regions with significant populations
 Iraq45,000,000[1]
 Iran500,000[2]
 Israel450,000[3][4]
 Germany321,000[5]
 United Kingdom400,000 - 850,000[6]
 United States350,000 to 450,000[7][8]
 United Arab Emirates250,000[9]
 Sweden145,586[10]
 Jordan131,000[11]
 Turkey115,000[12]
 Australia80,000–130,000[13][14]
 Netherlands85,000
 Lebanon50,000[15]
 Canada49,680[16]
 Finland26,653[17]
 Austria13,000+[18]
 Greece8,000[19]
 More countries
Languages
Mesopotamian Arabic (Semitic): 100% (as the official formal language spoken by Iraqis) and native only language spoken to 65–70%;
Neo-Aramaic languages (Semitic): 10%;
Kurdish languages (Zagroz languages): 20%;
Iraqi Turkmen Turkish (Turkic): 7–13%;[20]
Other indigenous Mesopotamian languages; 1% Including: Hebrew, Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, Mandaic, Armenian (diasporic), Shabaki, Domari and others
Religion
Predominantly
Islam (Shia and Sunni)
Smaller Minorities
Christianity (Church of the East, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Western Christianity), Irreligion, Judaism, Mandaeism, Yazidism, Yarsanism[21][22][23]
Related ethnic groups
Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Other Arabs

Iraqi Arabs are the largest ethnic group in Iraq,[25] followed by Iraqi Kurds, then Iraqi Turkmen as the third largest ethnic group.[26][27] Other ethnic groups include Yazidis, Assyrians, Mandaeans, Armenians, and Marsh Arabs.[28][29][30]

Iraq consists largely of most of ancient Mesopotamia, the native land of the indigenous Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian civilizations, which was subsequently conquered, invaded and ruled by foreigners for centuries after the fall of the indigenous Mesopotamian empires. As a direct consequence of this long history, the contemporary Iraqi population comprises a significant number of different ethnicities.[31] However, recent studies indicate that the different ethno-religious groups of Iraq (Mesopotamia) share significant similarities in genetics, likely due to centuries of assimilation between invading populations and the indigenous ethnic groups.[32]

The daily language of the majority of Iraqis is Mesopotamian Arabic, and has been ever since the Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia and the replacement of various Eastern Aramaic languages, most notably during the Abbasid Caliphate during which Baghdad became the capital of the caliphate and the center of Islamic Golden Age. However, Mesopotamian Arabic is considered to be the most Aramaic-influenced dialect of Arabic, due to Aramaic having originated in Mesopotamia, and spread throughout the Fertile Crescent during the Neo-Assyrian period, eventually becoming the lingua franca of the entire region prior to the Islamic invasions of Mesopotamia. [33][34][35][36] In addition, Kurdish, Turkish (Turkmen), Neo-Aramaic and Mandaic are other languages spoken by Iraqis and recognized by Iraq's constitution.[37]

History edit

Main articles: Mesopotamia, History of Mesopotamia, and History of Iraq

In ancient and medieval times Mesopotamia was the political and cultural centre of many great empires and civilizations, such as the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Assyrian Empire and Babylon Empire.[38][39] The ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer is the oldest known civilization in the world,[40] and thus Iraq is widely known as the Cradle Of Civilization.[38] Iraq remained an important centre of civilization for millennia, up until the Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia and subsequently Abbasid Caliphate (of which Baghdad was the capital), which was the most advanced empire of the medieval world (see Islamic Golden Age). Hence Mesopotamia has witnessed several emigration and immigration in the past.

Further information on Iraq's civilization and cultural history can be found in the following chronology of Iraqi history:

  • Akkadian era
  • Islamic conquest (632 – 1258)

Genetics edit

Further information: Genetic history of the Middle East, Genetic history of the Arab world, and Assyrian people § Genetics

One study found that Haplogroup J-M172 originated in northern Iraq.[41] In spite of the importance of this region, genetic studies on the Iraqi people are limited and generally restricted to analysis of classical markers due to Iraq's modern political instability,[41] although there have been several published studies displaying a genealogical connection between all Iraqi peoples and the neighboring countries, across religious, ethnic and linguistic barriers. Studies indicate that the different ethno-religious groups of Iraq (Mesopotamia) share significant similarities in genetics and that Mesopotamian Arabs, who make up the majority of Iraqis, are more genetically similar to Iraqi Kurds than other Arab populations in the Middle East and Arabia.[42]

No significant differences in Y-DNA variation were observed among Iraqi Mesopotamian Arabs, Assyrians, or Kurds.[41] Modern genetic studies indicate that Iraqi Arabs and Iraqi Kurds are distantly related, though Iraqi Mesopotamian Arabs are more related to Iraqi-Assyrians than they are to Iraqi Kurds.[43][44]

For both mtDNA and Y-DNA variation, the large majority of the haplogroups observed in the Iraqi population (H, J, T, and U for the mtDNA, J-M172 and J-M267 for the Y-DNA) are those considered to have originated in Western Asia and to have later spread mainly in West Asia.[41] The Eurasian haplogroups R1b and R1a represent the second most frequent component of the Iraqi Y-chromosome gene pool, the latter suggests that the population movements from Central Asia into modern Iran also influenced Iraq.[41]

Many historians and anthropologists provide strong circumstantial evidence to posit that Iraq's Marsh Arabs share very strong links to the ancient Sumerians[40][45]—the oldest human civilization in the world and most ancient inhabitants of central-southern Iraq.

The Iraqi-Assyrian population was found to be significantly related to other Iraqis, especially Mesopotamian Arabs,[44][40] likely due to the assimilation of indigenous Assyrians with other people groups who occupied and settled Mesopotamia after the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.[46]

Studies have reported that most Irish and Britons have ancestry to Neolithic farmers who left ancient Mesopotamia over 10,000 years ago. Genetic researchers say they have found compelling evidence that, on average, four out of five (80%) Europeans can trace their Y chromosome to the ancient Near East. In another study, scientists analyzed DNA from the 8,000-year-old remains of early farmers found at an ancient graveyard in Germany. They compared the genetic signatures to those of modern populations and found similarities with the DNA of people living in today's Turkey and Iraq.[47]

Language edit

Iraq's national languages are Arabic and the Kurdish languages. The two main regional dialects of Arabic spoken by the Iraqi people are Mesopotamian Arabic (spoken in the Babylonian alluvial plain and Middle Euphrates valley) and South Mesopotamian Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic (spoken in the Assyrian highlands).[48] The two main dialects of Kurdish spoken by Kurdish people are Central Kurdish (spoken in the Erbil and Sulaymaniyah Governorates)[49] and Northern Kurdish (spoken in Dohuk Governorate).[49] In addition to Arabic, most Assyrians and Mandaeans speak Neo-Aramaic languages. Mesopotamian Arabic has an Aramaic substratum.[33]

Religion and ethnic groups edit

See also: Irreligion in Iraq
 
Mor Mattai Monastery
 
Haydar-Khana Mosque

Ethnicity edit

Iraq's population was estimated to be 39,650,145 in 2021 (residing in Iraq).[50] Arabs are the majority ethnic group in Iraq, at around 80%.[51] The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority. Turkmens are the third largest ethnic group in the country. This is followed by Assyrians and Armenians (500,000), Yazidis (500,000), Marsh Arabs, and Shabaks, Persians (500,000) (250,000). Other minorities include Mandaeans (6,000), Roma (50,000) and Circassians (2,000). The most spoken language is Mesopotamian Arabic, followed by Kurdish, Iraqi Turkmen dialects and Syriac. The percentages of different ethno-religious groups residing in Iraq vary from source to source due to the last Iraqi census having taken place over 30 years ago. A new census of Iraq was planned to take place in 2020.[52][28][29][30][53]

Religion edit

Iraqis are diverse in their faiths. Over 95% of Iraqis are Muslim, divided between 55% Shias and 40% Sunnis.[54] In 1968 the Iraqi constitution established Islam as the official religion of the state.

Religion in Iraq (2019)[55]

  Islam (95%)
  Yazidism (1.25%)
  Christianity (1.25%)
  others (incl.Yarsanism, Zoroastrianism, Bahá'í, Mandaeism, Irreligion) (2%)

In addition, Christianity in Iraq consists of various denominations. The majority of Iraqi Christians are Chaldean Catholic Assyrians, whilst non-Syriac Christians are mostly Iraqi Arabs and Armenians. Iraqi-Assyrians largely belong to the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Ancient Church of the East, and the Syriac Catholic Church. Iraqi Arab Christians belong to the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Antioch, and Iraqi-Armenians belong to the Armenian Orthodox Church and Armenian Catholic Church. Their numbers inside Iraq have dwindled to around 500,000+ since 2003.[56]

Other religious groups include Mandaeans, Shabaks, Yazidis and followers of other minority religions. Furthermore, Jews had also been present in Iraq in significant numbers historically, and Iraq had the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, but their population dwindled, after virtually all of them migrated to Israel between 1949 and 1952. From 1949 to 1951, 104,000 Jews were evacuated from Iraq in Operations Ezra and Nechemia (named after the Jewish leaders who took their people back to Jerusalem from exile in Babylonia beginning in 597 B.C.E.); another 20,000 were smuggled out through Iran.[57][58][59]

Diaspora edit

Main articles: Iraqi diaspora and Refugees of Iraq

The Iraqi diaspora is not a sudden exodus but one that has grown rapidly through the 20th century as each generation faced some form of radical transition or political conflict. From 1950 to 1952 Iraq saw a great exodus of roughly 120,000 - 130,000 of its Jewish population under the Israel-led "Operation Ezra and Nehemiah". There were at least two large waves of expatriation of both Christians and Muslims alike. A great number of Iraqis left the country during the regime of Saddam Hussein and large numbers have left during the Iraq war and its aftermath.

See also edit

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Iraqis news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Iraqis Arabic العراقيون are people who originate from the country of Iraq 24 IraqisالعراقيونMap of the Iraqi diaspora in the world including descendantsTotal population50 million worldwideRegions with significant populations Iraq45 000 000 1 Iran500 000 2 Israel450 000 3 4 Germany321 000 5 United Kingdom400 000 850 000 6 United States350 000 to 450 000 7 8 United Arab Emirates250 000 9 Sweden145 586 10 Jordan131 000 11 Turkey115 000 12 Australia80 000 130 000 13 14 Netherlands85 000 Lebanon50 000 15 Canada49 680 16 Finland26 653 17 Austria13 000 18 Greece8 000 19 More countriesLanguagesMesopotamian Arabic Semitic 100 as the official formal language spoken by Iraqis and native only language spoken to 65 70 Neo Aramaic languages Semitic 10 Kurdish languages Zagroz languages 20 Iraqi Turkmen Turkish Turkic 7 13 20 Other indigenous Mesopotamian languages 1 Including Hebrew Judeo Iraqi Arabic Mandaic Armenian diasporic Shabaki Domari and othersReligionPredominantlyIslam Shia and Sunni Smaller MinoritiesChristianity Church of the East Oriental Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Eastern Catholic Western Christianity Irreligion Judaism Mandaeism Yazidism Yarsanism 21 22 23 Related ethnic groupsSumerians Akkadians Babylonians and Other Arabs Iraqi Arabs are the largest ethnic group in Iraq 25 followed by Iraqi Kurds then Iraqi Turkmen as the third largest ethnic group 26 27 Other ethnic groups include Yazidis Assyrians Mandaeans Armenians and Marsh Arabs 28 29 30 Iraq consists largely of most of ancient Mesopotamia the native land of the indigenous Sumerian Akkadian Assyrian and Babylonian civilizations which was subsequently conquered invaded and ruled by foreigners for centuries after the fall of the indigenous Mesopotamian empires As a direct consequence of this long history the contemporary Iraqi population comprises a significant number of different ethnicities 31 However recent studies indicate that the different ethno religious groups of Iraq Mesopotamia share significant similarities in genetics likely due to centuries of assimilation between invading populations and the indigenous ethnic groups 32 The daily language of the majority of Iraqis is Mesopotamian Arabic and has been ever since the Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia and the replacement of various Eastern Aramaic languages most notably during the Abbasid Caliphate during which Baghdad became the capital of the caliphate and the center of Islamic Golden Age However Mesopotamian Arabic is considered to be the most Aramaic influenced dialect of Arabic due to Aramaic having originated in Mesopotamia and spread throughout the Fertile Crescent during the Neo Assyrian period eventually becoming the lingua franca of the entire region prior to the Islamic invasions of Mesopotamia 33 34 35 36 In addition Kurdish Turkish Turkmen Neo Aramaic and Mandaic are other languages spoken by Iraqis and recognized by Iraq s constitution 37 Contents 1 History 2 Genetics 3 Language 4 Religion and ethnic groups 4 1 Ethnicity 4 2 Religion 5 Diaspora 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory editMain articles Mesopotamia History of Mesopotamia and History of Iraq In ancient and medieval times Mesopotamia was the political and cultural centre of many great empires and civilizations such as the Akkadian Empire Assyria Assyrian Empire and Babylon Empire 38 39 The ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer is the oldest known civilization in the world 40 and thus Iraq is widely known as the Cradle Of Civilization 38 Iraq remained an important centre of civilization for millennia up until the Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia and subsequently Abbasid Caliphate of which Baghdad was the capital which was the most advanced empire of the medieval world see Islamic Golden Age Hence Mesopotamia has witnessed several emigration and immigration in the past Further information on Iraq s civilization and cultural history can be found in the following chronology of Iraqi history Nemrik 9 9800 BC 8200 BC Jarmo 7000 5000 BC Sumer 6500 1940 BC Ubaid period 6500 4000 BC Uruk period 4000 3000 BC Early Dynastic period 3000 2334 BC Sumer and Akkad 1900 539 BC Akkadian Empire 2334 2218 BC Gutian dynasty 2218 2047 BC Neo Sumerian Empire 2047 1940 BC Akkadian era Babylonia 1900 539 BC Assyria 1900 609 BC Neo Assyrian Empire 745 626 BC Neo Babylonian Empire 626 539 BC Fall of Babylon 539 BC Achaemenid Empire 539 330 BC Achaemenid Assyria 539 330 BC Seleucid Babylonia 331 141 BC Parthian Babylonia 141 BC 224 Araba 100 BC 240 Adiabene 15 116 Sassanid Persia 224 638 Asuristan 224 638 Lakhmids 266 633 Islamic conquest 632 1258 Rashidun Caliphate 638 661 Umayyad Caliphate 661 750 Abbasid Caliphate 750 1258 Ilkhanate 1258 1335 Turkic dynasties 1335 1501 Jalayirid Sultanate 1335 1410 Kara Koyunlu 1410 1468 Ak Koyunlu 1468 1501 Safavid dynasty 1501 1533 Ottoman Empire 1533 1918 Mamluk dynasty 1747 1831 British Mandate for Mesopotamia 1920 1932 Kingdom of Iraq 1932 1958 Republic of Iraq 1958 Iraqi Republic 1958 1968 Ba athist Iraq 1968 2003 Genetics editFurther information Genetic history of the Middle East Genetic history of the Arab world and Assyrian people Genetics One study found that Haplogroup J M172 originated in northern Iraq 41 In spite of the importance of this region genetic studies on the Iraqi people are limited and generally restricted to analysis of classical markers due to Iraq s modern political instability 41 although there have been several published studies displaying a genealogical connection between all Iraqi peoples and the neighboring countries across religious ethnic and linguistic barriers Studies indicate that the different ethno religious groups of Iraq Mesopotamia share significant similarities in genetics and that Mesopotamian Arabs who make up the majority of Iraqis are more genetically similar to Iraqi Kurds than other Arab populations in the Middle East and Arabia 42 No significant differences in Y DNA variation were observed among Iraqi Mesopotamian Arabs Assyrians or Kurds 41 Modern genetic studies indicate that Iraqi Arabs and Iraqi Kurds are distantly related though Iraqi Mesopotamian Arabs are more related to Iraqi Assyrians than they are to Iraqi Kurds 43 44 For both mtDNA and Y DNA variation the large majority of the haplogroups observed in the Iraqi population H J T and U for the mtDNA J M172 and J M267 for the Y DNA are those considered to have originated in Western Asia and to have later spread mainly in West Asia 41 The Eurasian haplogroups R1b and R1a represent the second most frequent component of the Iraqi Y chromosome gene pool the latter suggests that the population movements from Central Asia into modern Iran also influenced Iraq 41 Many historians and anthropologists provide strong circumstantial evidence to posit that Iraq s Marsh Arabs share very strong links to the ancient Sumerians 40 45 the oldest human civilization in the world and most ancient inhabitants of central southern Iraq The Iraqi Assyrian population was found to be significantly related to other Iraqis especially Mesopotamian Arabs 44 40 likely due to the assimilation of indigenous Assyrians with other people groups who occupied and settled Mesopotamia after the fall of the Neo Babylonian Empire 46 Studies have reported that most Irish and Britons have ancestry to Neolithic farmers who left ancient Mesopotamia over 10 000 years ago Genetic researchers say they have found compelling evidence that on average four out of five 80 Europeans can trace their Y chromosome to the ancient Near East In another study scientists analyzed DNA from the 8 000 year old remains of early farmers found at an ancient graveyard in Germany They compared the genetic signatures to those of modern populations and found similarities with the DNA of people living in today s Turkey and Iraq 47 Language editIraq s national languages are Arabic and the Kurdish languages The two main regional dialects of Arabic spoken by the Iraqi people are Mesopotamian Arabic spoken in the Babylonian alluvial plain and Middle Euphrates valley and South Mesopotamian Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic spoken in the Assyrian highlands 48 The two main dialects of Kurdish spoken by Kurdish people are Central Kurdish spoken in the Erbil and Sulaymaniyah Governorates 49 and Northern Kurdish spoken in Dohuk Governorate 49 In addition to Arabic most Assyrians and Mandaeans speak Neo Aramaic languages Mesopotamian Arabic has an Aramaic substratum 33 Religion and ethnic groups editSee also Irreligion in Iraq nbsp Mor Mattai Monastery nbsp Haydar Khana Mosque Ethnicity edit Iraq s population was estimated to be 39 650 145 in 2021 residing in Iraq 50 Arabs are the majority ethnic group in Iraq at around 80 51 The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority Turkmens are the third largest ethnic group in the country This is followed by Assyrians and Armenians 500 000 Yazidis 500 000 Marsh Arabs and Shabaks Persians 500 000 250 000 Other minorities include Mandaeans 6 000 Roma 50 000 and Circassians 2 000 The most spoken language is Mesopotamian Arabic followed by Kurdish Iraqi Turkmen dialects and Syriac The percentages of different ethno religious groups residing in Iraq vary from source to source due to the last Iraqi census having taken place over 30 years ago A new census of Iraq was planned to take place in 2020 52 28 29 30 53 Religion edit Iraqis are diverse in their faiths Over 95 of Iraqis are Muslim divided between 55 Shias and 40 Sunnis 54 In 1968 the Iraqi constitution established Islam as the official religion of the state Religion in Iraq 2019 55 Islam 95 Yazidism 1 25 Christianity 1 25 others incl Yarsanism Zoroastrianism Baha i Mandaeism Irreligion 2 In addition Christianity in Iraq consists of various denominations The majority of Iraqi Christians are Chaldean Catholic Assyrians whilst non Syriac Christians are mostly Iraqi Arabs and Armenians Iraqi Assyrians largely belong to the Syriac Orthodox Church the Assyrian Church of the East Chaldean Catholic Church Ancient Church of the East and the Syriac Catholic Church Iraqi Arab Christians belong to the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Antioch and Iraqi Armenians belong to the Armenian Orthodox Church and Armenian Catholic Church Their numbers inside Iraq have dwindled to around 500 000 since 2003 56 Other religious groups include Mandaeans Shabaks Yazidis and followers of other minority religions Furthermore Jews had also been present in Iraq in significant numbers historically and Iraq had the largest Jewish population in the Middle East but their population dwindled after virtually all of them migrated to Israel between 1949 and 1952 From 1949 to 1951 104 000 Jews were evacuated from Iraq in Operations Ezra and Nechemia named after the Jewish leaders who took their people back to Jerusalem from exile in Babylonia beginning in 597 B C E another 20 000 were smuggled out through Iran 57 58 59 Diaspora editMain articles Iraqi diaspora and Refugees of Iraq The Iraqi diaspora is not a sudden exodus but one that has grown rapidly through the 20th century as each generation faced some form of radical transition or political conflict From 1950 to 1952 Iraq saw a great exodus of roughly 120 000 130 000 of its Jewish population under the Israel led Operation Ezra and Nehemiah There were at least two large waves of expatriation of both Christians and Muslims alike A great number of Iraqis left the country during the regime of Saddam Hussein and large numbers have left during the Iraq war and its aftermath See also editDemographics of Iraq List of IraqisReferences edit Iraq International Monetary Fund 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