The Iraqi people or Mesopotamian people are natives or inhabitants of the country of Iraq, known since antiquity as Mesopotamia and, by virtue of a wide-ranging diaspora, throughout the Arab World, Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Before the arrival of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula, The population was mainly non-Arabic speaking one but also witnessed a minority Arab presence, like Bani Assad, Taghlib, and Lakhmid tribes among others.

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  • The Iraqi people or Mesopotamian people are natives or inhabitants of the country of Iraq, known since antiquity as Mesopotamia and, by virtue of a wide-ranging diaspora, throughout the Arab World, Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Before the arrival of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula, The population was mainly non-Arabic speaking one but also witnessed a minority Arab presence, like Bani Assad, Taghlib, and Lakhmid tribes among others. After the arrival of Islam, Iraq witnessed a large migration from Arabia. At some point Iraq underwent a campaign of administrative and linguistic Arabization following the Muslim conquest of Persia. As a result, most of the non-Arabic speaking one gradually adopted Arabic due to Arabic being the only language of the Quran. This change was facilitated by the fact that Arabic, being a Semitic language, shared a close resemblance to Iraq's traditional languages of Akkadian and Aramaic. While Arabic was the common language spoken by Iraqi Muslims from the 8th century AD onwards, many of Iraq's Christians had no need of completely adopting the language, as prayers were not held in Arabic but in Aramaic. This is the reason why, even nowadays, many Christian Iraqis (who identify primarily with the people of ancient Assyria) speak mainly Neo-Aramaic (a modern form of the ancient Aramaic) but also Arabic.
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  • Iraqi people
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  • Iraqi diaspora
  • Refugees of Iraq
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  • 1-2 million
  • 150,000+
  • 2 million+
  • 203,000+
  • 350,000+
  • 450,000+
  • 70,000–340,000+
  • 31234000 (xsd:integer)
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  • 100,000+
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  • 100,000+
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  • 100,000+
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  • 60,000–90,000+
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  • 80,000+
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  • 70,000+
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  • 50,000+
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  • 40,000+
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  • 5,000–40,000+
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  • 37,000,000+
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  • Iraqi people consist of and are related to Arabs, Assyrians, Caucasians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Iranians, Lebanese, Mizrahim, Palestinians, Syrians, Turks
    Y-DNA Haplogroup J2 originated in Northern Iraq N. Al-Zahery et al, "Y-chromosome and mtDNA polymorphisms in Iraq, a crossroad of the early human dispersal and of post-Neolithic migrations," Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2003)
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  • '''Predominantly'''
    Islam
    '''Others'''
    Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism as well as several other minority religions
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  • The Iraqi people or Mesopotamian people are natives or inhabitants of the country of Iraq, known since antiquity as Mesopotamia and, by virtue of a wide-ranging diaspora, throughout the Arab World, Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Before the arrival of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula, The population was mainly non-Arabic speaking one but also witnessed a minority Arab presence, like Bani Assad, Taghlib, and Lakhmid tribes among others.
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  • Iraqi people
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