Much of Mosul’s Old City, where speakers of the dialect are concentrated, was completely destroyed in the war against the Islamic State group. She recalls speaking it with her grandfather and his friends, who lived in the Old City. The Maslawi dialect borrows words from Turkish, Persian and Kurdish, reflecting the tumultuous history of Mosul and the surrounding plains of Ninevah. He doesn’t speak Maslawi. Some people say it sounds like women’s talk.”As recently as 2014, the Old City was home to more than 60,000 people.

Source: Egypt Independent January 28, 2019 10:30 UTC