Alternate Names: Mandaean, Mandi, Mandini, Modern Mandaic, Neo-Mandaic, Sabean, Sabe’in, Subbi
Dialects: Iraqi Neo-Mandaic.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 5,000 in Iraq (2006). Population total all countries: 5,500. Ethnic population: 30,000.
Language Use: Ethnic Mandaeans have shifted to Arabic as their L1 (Dimmendaal and Voeltz 2007).
Writing System: Mandaic
Nation of Origin: Iraq
Other Comments: Mandaean.