|states=[[Iraq]], [[Iran]], [[Turkey]]
|region=[[Iraq]]; [[Mosul]], [[Ninawa]], now also [[Baghdad]] and [[Basra]].
|speakers=2203,100,000
|date=no date
|ref=e18
|speakers2=(110300,000 in Iraq in 19942015)
|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
|fam2=[[Semitic languages|Semitic]]