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- Afroasiatic
- Northwest Semitic
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
ISO 639-3 · aiiaii
Afroasiatic family
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is a language of the Northwest Semitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey and 2 more countries. Wikidata counts about 232,300 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Neo-Aramaic dialect”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
aii- Glottocode
assy1241- Family
- Afroasiatic
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- Wikipedia
- 44 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
6countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Assyrian Neo-Aramaic |
|---|---|
| Also called | Assyrian, Eastern Syriac, Assyrian language, Suret language, Chaldean |
| All speakers | 232,300 |
| Written in | Syriac alphabet |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
The branches above Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
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where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Iraq
araArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafefasFarsiIndo-European · 70 mSafeazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafekurKurdishIndo-European · 21 mSafeacmMesopotamian ArabicAfroasiatic · 15.7 m3 · Wider CommunicationkmrKurmanjiIndo-European · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationckbCentral KurdishIndo-European · 7.2 m2 · ProvincialhyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationalsdhSouthern KurdishIndo-European · 3 m6a · VigorouslkiLakiIndo-European · 1.5 m6a · Vigorous