* Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta by the American Bible Society.

* The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary.

Dugh (" dawghe " in Neo-Aramaic ), Ayran or dhalla is a yogurt-based, salty drink popular in Afghanistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Republic of Macedonia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

This language was most probably spoken by Jesus, and, in various modern forms is still spoken by the Assyrian Christians in Iran today ( see Assyrian Neo-Aramaic and Senaya language ).

Along with the other surviving dialects of Aramaic, it is classified as Neo-Aramaic ; these form a constellation of dialects ranging from Lake Van and Lake Urmia in the north to Damascus and Ahvaz in the south, clustered in small groups.

Having developed in isolation from one another, most Neo-Aramaic dialects are mutually unintelligible and should therefore be considered separate languages ; however, determining the exact relationship between the various Neo-Aramaic dialects is a difficult task, fraught with many problems, which arise from our incomplete knowledge of these dialects and their relation to the Aramaic dialects of antiquity.

The only Semitic language spoken in the Caucasus is Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, spoken by around 30, 000 speakers, largely living in cities, who fled to Russia from Turkey in the aftermath of the Assyrian Genocide at the close of the First World War.

Neo-Aramaic is a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew.

* In Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, it is called " dawghe "

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ( also known as Assyrian, Aisorski, Assyrianci, Assyriski, Lishana Aturaya, Neo-Syriac, Sooreth, Suret, Sureth, or Suryaya Swadaya ) is a Neo-Aramaic dialect, spoken by an estimated 220, 000 people ( 1994 SIL estimate ), formerly in the area between Lake Urmia, north-western Iran, northern Iraq, north-eastern Syria and Siirt, south-eastern Turkey, but now more widely throughout the Assyrian – Chaldean – Syriac diaspora.

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is to a considerable extent mutually intelligible with Chaldean Neo-Aramaic and to a lesser extent with Turoyo.

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is one of a number of modern Eastern Aramaic dialects spoken in the region between Lake Urmia in Iranian Azerbaijan and Mosul in northern Iraq.

Northeastern Neo-Aramaic is a dialect continuum, and because of the high intelligibility between dialects, and due to the high level of exposure of the non-standard dialects to General Urmian or the Iraqi Koine.

Lishana Deni is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic.

The name Lishana Deni means ' our language ', and is similar to names used by other Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects ( Lishan Didan, Lishanid Noshan ).

On the other hand, there is quite reasonable intelligibility between it and the Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects spoken in the region.

The Christian dialect of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic is closest to Lishana Deni, followed by the less intelligible Ashiret dialects of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.

Lishán Didán is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic.

To distinguish it from other dialects of Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Lishán Didán is sometimes called Lakhlokhi ( literally ' to-you ( f )- to-you ( m )') or Galihalu (' mine-yours '), demonstrating different use of prepositions and pronominal suffixes.

Lishán Didán, at the northeastern extreme of this area, is somewhat intelligible with the Jewish Neo-Aramaic languages of Hulaula ( spoken further south, in Iranian Kurdistan ) and Lishanid Noshan ( formerly spoken around Kirkuk, Iraq ).

However, as similar names are used by most of the dialects of Jewish Neo-Aramaic, scholarly sources tend to call it Arbil Jewish Neo-Aramaic.

Hulaulá sits at the southeastern extreme of the wide area over which various Neo-Aramaic dialects used to be spoken.

The native name of the language is Lishanid Janan, which means ' our language ', and is similar to names used by other Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects ( Lishan Didan, Lishanid Noshan ).

As spoken by the Kurdish Jews, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects are descended from Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, also known as " Assyrian lettering " ( Ktav Ashurit ), the " square-script ", by Ezra the Scribe, as could be seen from its hundreds of reflexes in Jewish Neo-Aramaic.

The Neo-Aramaic languages evolved from Middle Aramaic by the 13th century.

Russian linguists studied Assyrian Neo-Aramaic as spoken by immigrant speakers in Georgia and Armenia at the end of the 19th century.

The Urmia dialect has become the prestige dialect of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic after 1836, when that dialect was chosen by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, for the creation of a standard literary dialect of Assyrian.

However, the local Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic are unintelligible: Christian and Jewish communities living side by side developed completely different variants of Aramaic that had more in common with their co-religionists living further away than with their neighbours.

It does not appear to be intelligible with Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, which is spoken by co-religionists further north, or with the Jewish Neo-Aramaic language of Lishanid Noshan which was traditionally spoken by the Jews of Koy Sanjaq.

As this causes some confusion with similarly named dialects ( Lishana Deni, Lishanid Noshan ), scholarly sources tend simply to use a more descriptive name, like Persian Azerbaijani Jewish Neo-Aramaic.

The first language of these speakers is either Hebrew or Kurdish, and some also speak Arabic or another Neo-Aramaic dialect.

There are some rare texts written in Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic.

Jesus ' native western accent survives today in the form of Western Neo-Aramaic in a few remote villages.

This particular and distinct dialect of Jewish Neo-Aramaic was spoken in the villages of Bijil, Barzan and Shahe.

Western Neo-Aramaic probably is the surviving remnant of a Western Middle Aramaic dialect which was spoken throughout the Orontes Valley area and into the Anti-Lebanon in the 6th century.

Today, Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the Hebrew alphabet.

Syriac and Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects are written in the Syriac alphabet.

Also, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic dies in Jerusalem.

Rabshakeh, also Rab-shakeh and Rabsaces (; Rapsakēs ; ) Neo-Aramaic: () This name meaning chief of the princes was given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the Assyrian royal court.

The main languages spoken are Arabic, Neo-Aramaic, Kurdish, South Azeri, Shabaki, and Armenian.

* Semitic: Hebrew, Aramaic ( referred to as Jewish Aramaic or Talmudic Aramaic ), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Neo-Aramaic ( dialects include: Lishanid Noshan, Lishanid Janan, Lishana Noshan, Lishana Deni, Lishan Didan ), Judeo-Arabic ( many dialects, including: Judeo-Iraqiall are qeltu Arabic dialects ), Judeo-Moroccan, Judeo-Yemenite, Judeo-Libyan, Judeo-Algerian, also several Judeo-Arabic dialects spoken in northern Syria and Iraq.

The local Arabic and Aramaic speaking population, which shared a very close Semitic linguistic / genetic ancestry with the Qahtani and Adnani Arabs, was somewhat Arabized, although Neo-Aramaic speaking minorities persist to the present day.

The division of the Assyrian from Chaldean Neo-Aramaic was a consequence of the religious schism of 1552 which led to the formation of the Assyrian Church of the East.