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Arabic
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Arabic
the language of the Arabs, spoken in a variety of dialects; the official language of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, the Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. It is estimated to be the native language of some 75 million people throughout the world. It belongs to the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages and has its own alphabet, which has been borrowed by certain other languages such as Urdu


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From then on, securing the oilfields of Kirkuk and surrounding areas continued behind policies of Arabicizing, and every subsequent Iraqi government followed that pattern, including the mass deportation of the Kurdish people from their ancestors' lands that was ordered by Saddam's regime from the late 1970s on.
Kirkuk: the heartland of Kurdistan by The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq)
Othman believes that bringing forces from middle and southern Iraq to Kirkuk means Arabicizing the city, which is exactly what the Iraqi government of Saddam did.
Britain and Turkey back Arabs on Kirkuk: Arabicizing the city ... by The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq)
 
 
 
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