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Name: Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Chaldean (Modern); Chaldean; Kildani; Kaldaya; Neo-Chaldean; Modern Chaldean; Sureth; Soorith; Soorath; Suras; Lishana Kaldaya; Fellihi; Fallani

Spoken in: Belgium, Lebanon, USA, Australia, Iraq, Sweden, Syria, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, Turkey, Armenia, Iran

Number of speakers: 110,000 in Iraq (1994 H. Mutzafi). Population total all countries: 216,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 206000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: cld

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Afro-Asiatic

Parent Subgroup: Northeastern Neo-Aramaic; NENA; Northeastern Central Eastern Aramaic (ncea)

Child Dialects: Tel Kepe (cld-tel) Tisqopa (cld-tis) Bartille (cld-bar) Shirnak-Chizre; Bohtan (cld-shi) Mangesh (cld-man) Alqosh (cld-alq) Dihok (cld-dih)

Endangerment Status

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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