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Name: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Type: Language Alternate Names: Neo-Aramaic (Assyrian); Lishana Aturaya; Suret; Sooreth; Sureth; Suryaya Swadaya; Assyrian; Neo-Syriac; Assyriski; Aisorski; Assyrianci Spoken in: Lebanon, USA, Belgium, Iran, Sweden, Australia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, France, Georgia, Syria, Germany, New Zealand, Armenia, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Austria Number of speakers: 30,000 in Iraq (1994). Population total all countries: 219,330. Ethnic population: 4,250,000 (1994) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 240000 (UNESCO) Code: aii Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Afro-Asiatic Parent Subgroup: Northeastern Neo-Aramaic; NENA; Northeastern Central Eastern Aramaic (ncea) Child Dialect Groups: Urmian group; Urmi Subgroup (aii-urm) Northern Group (aii-nor) Western Group (aii-wes) Sapna cluster (aii-sap) Central Group (aii-cen) Khabur; Khābūr Subgroup (aii-kha) Child Dialect: Iranian Koine; General Urmi (aii-ira)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed