Eastern Aramaic languages

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Neo-Aramaic dialect

language of the Mandaean religion and community

language from the Central Neo-Aramaic language family

Middle Aramaic language once used by Jewish writers in Lower Mesopotamia

Western Aramaic dialect spoken in the city of Palmyra in the early centuries AD

modern Eastern Aramaic or Syriac language

modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic

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language

group of Aramaic languages

Neo-Mandaic, also known as Modern Mandaic, sometimes called the "ratna" ( "jargon"), is the modern reflex of the Mandaic language, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran. Although severely endangered, it survives as the first language of a small number of Mandaeans (possibly as few as 100–200 speakers) in Iran and in the Mandaean diaspora. All Neo-Mandaic speakers are multilingual in the languages of their neighbors, Arabic and Persian, and the influence of these languages upon the grammar of Neo-Mandaic is considerable, particularly in the lexicon a

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modern Eastern Neo-Aramaic language

pre-WWI Neo-Aramaic dialects

language family