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Iran has a significant Arab community. > Most Iranian Arabs in Khūzestān Province speak Arabic and Persian. The Arabic spoken in the province is Khuzestani Ara
by barry-cotter 5y ago
Iran has a significant Arab community.
> Most Iranian Arabs in Khūzestān Province speak Arabic and Persian. The Arabic spoken in the province is Khuzestani Arabic, a mixed of Gulf Arabic and Mesopotamian Arabic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Arabs#:~:text=Most%20Iranian%20Arabs%20in%20Kh%C5%ABzest%C4%81n%20Province%20speak%20Arabic,and%20the%20Mawl%C4%81%CA%BE%C4%AB%20at%20Hoveyzeh%20can%20be%20mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Arabs#:~:text=Most%20I....
- dogorman 5y ago1.6 million people is certainly significant, so you're not wrong. But leaving it at that without more information is likely to mislead people. > The CIA World Factbook (which is based on 2013 statistics) gives the following numbers for the languages spoken in Iran today: Persian, Luri, Gilaki and Mazandarani 66%; Azerbaijani and other Turkic languages 18%; Kurdish 10%; Arabic 2%; Balochi 2%; others 2% (Armenian, Georgian, Circassian, Assyrian, etc.).[20] > Other sources, such as the Library of Congress, and the Encyclopedia of Islam (Leiden)[21] give Iran's ethnic groups as following: Persians 65%, Azerbaijanis 16%, Kurds 7%, Lurs 6%, Arabs 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmens 1%, Turkic tribal groups (e.g. Qashqai) 1%, and non-Persian, non-Turkic groups (e.g. Armenians, Georgians, Assyrians, Circassians, Basseri ) less than 1%.[22] For sources prior to and after 2000, see Languages and ethnicities in Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran#Languages_and_ethnic_groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran#Languages...
- irrational 5y agoSo does the USA, but the USA isn't an arab country either.