Demographic Table for Middle East LCTLs
Name of Language	Country	Mother Tongue (L1) Speakers	Most Recent Year of Cited Data	Number of Speakers (L1+L2) Worldwide	Current Usage & Socio-cultural Importance
Adyghe	SYRIA	25,000		300,000
	TURKEY	71,000	1965
	ISRAEL	3,000	1987
	JORDAN	44,200	1986
	IRAQ	19,000	1993
Amharic	ISRAEL	40,000		21M
Arabic, Baharna Spoken	BAHRAIN	300,000	1995
Arabic, Cypriot Spoken	CYPRUS	1,300
Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken	EGYPT	780,000	1996
Arabic, Egyptian Spoken	EGYPT	44.4M	1998	46M
Arabic, Gulf Spoken	BAHRAIN	100,000	1995	2.44M
	IRAN	200,000
	IRAQ	40,000	1993
	KUWAIT	500,000	1986
	OMAN	441,000	1995
	QATAR	104,000	1986
	SAUDI ARABIA	200,000
	U. A. E.	744,000
Arabic, Hadrami Spoken	YEMEN	300,000	1995	410,000
Arabic, Hijazi Spoken	SAUDI ARABIA	6M	1996
Arabic, Judeo-Iraqui	ISRAEL	100,000-200,000	1994
Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan	ISRAEL	250,000	1994	254,000
Arabic, Levantine Bedawi Spoken	JORDAN	70,000		1.6M
	PALESTINE	10,000	1996
	SYRIA	70,000
Arabic, Libyan Spoken	LIBYA	4.2M	1995
Arabic, Mesopotamian Spoken	IRAN	1.2M		13.9M
	IRAQ	11.5M
	SYRIA	1.8M
Arabic, North Mesopotamian Spoken	SYRIA	300,000		6.3M
	TURKEY	400,000
	IRAQ	5.4M
Arabic, Nadji Spoken	IRAQ	900,000		9.8M
	SAUDI ARABIA	8M
	SYRIA	500,000
Arabic, North Levantine Spoken	LEBANON	3.9M	1991	15M
	SYRIA	8.8M
Arabic, Omani Spoken	OMAN	720,000	1996	1M
Arabic, Sa<idi Spoken	EGYPT	18.9M	1996
Arabic, Sanaai Spoken	YEMEN	7.6M	1996
Arabic, South Levantine Spoken	PALESTINE	1.6M	1996
Arabic, Southern Levantine Spoken	ISRAEL	910,000		6.16M
	JORDAN	3.5M	1996
Arabic, Standard	ALL MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES	no est.
Arabic, Tai'izzi-Adeni Spoken	YEMEN	6.76M	1996	6.84M
Armenian	CYPRUS	2,470	1987	6M
	IRAN	170,800	1993
	LEBANON	235,000	1986
	SYRIA	320,000	1993
	TURKEY	40,000	1980 est.
Azerbaijani, South	IRAN	23.5M		24.4M
	IRAQ	300,000-900,000	1982 est.
	TURKEY	500,000		24.4M
Balochi, Southern	IRAN	405,000		3.4M
	OMAN	130,000	1993
	U. A. E.	100,000
Balochi, Western	IRAN	451,000	1986	1.8M
Bulgarian	TURKEY	270,000	1993	9M
Domari	EGYPT	no est.		500,000
	IRAN	80,000	1929
	IRAQ	50,000
	LIBYA	no est.
	SYRIA	10,000	1961
	TURKEY	20,000	1982 est.
Farsi, Eastern	AFGANISTAN	5.6 M			national
Farsi, Western	IRAN	22M	1997	24.3M	national
	QATAR	73,000	1993
	U. A. E.	80,000	1986
Gilaki	IRAN	3.3M	1993
Greek	CYPRUS	578,000	1995	12M
	TURKEY	4,000	1993
Hazaragi	AFGANISTAN	1.4M		1.8-6M
	IRAN	283,000	1993
Hebrew	ISRAEL	4.85M	1998	5.15M	national
Kurdi	IRAN	3.25M		11M (1999)	national
	IRAQ	2.8M			national
Kurmanji	IRAN	200,000	1993	7-8M
	SYRIA	938,000	1993
	TURKEY	3.4M	1980
Luri	IRAN	4.3M	1993
Mazanderani	IRAN	3.27M	1993
Parsi-Dari	IRAN	350,000
Pashto, Northern	U. A. E.	100,000	1986	9.7M
Pashto, Southern	AFGANISTAN	8M		19M	national
	IRAN	113,000
	U. A. E.	"thousands"
Qashqa'I	IRAN	1.5M	1997
Romani, Balkan	TURKEY	25,000-40,000		1M
Serbo-Croatian	TURKEY	20,000	1980	21M
Takestani	IRAN	220,000
Talysh	IRAN	112,000	1993	800,000-2M
Turkish	CYPRUS	177,000	1995	61M
	TURKEY	46.3M	1997		national
Turkmen	AFGANISTAN	500,000		6M
	IRAN	2M	1997
Uzbek, Southern	AFGANISTAN	1.4M