lang_description: "One of the languages spoken by the Assyrian people. Spoken by 232,300 people in total. Ethnic population is 4,250,000. It is spoken primarily in Northern Iraq. Also spoken in Iran, Syria and Armenia. It is endangered and listed as 'threatened' by Ethnologue. ",
classification: null,
dialect_varieties: "Urmi Assyrian (Sipurghan, Solduz, Urmi), Northern Assyrian (Baz, Dez, Gavar, Jilu, Qudshanis, Salamas, Upper Barwari, Van), Central Assyrian (Anhar, Mar Bishu, Nochiya, Shamezdin, Tergawar), Western Assyrian (Lewin, Lower Barwari, Tal, Tkhuma), Sapna (Aradhin, Benatha, Daudiya, Inishke, Tina). Urmian group subdialects: Urmi, Sipurghan, Solduz; Northern Group: Salamas, Van, Jilu, Gavar, Qudshanis, Upper Barwari, Dez, Baz; Central Group: Mar Bishu, Nochiya (Shamezdin), Tergawar, Anhar; Western Group: Tkhuma, Lower Barwari, Tal, Lewin; Sapna Group: Aradhin, Tina, Daudiya, Inishke, Benatha. ",
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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language: {
code_id:10770,
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google_group_url: null,
simplified_level: null,
coordinates: "36.52, 43.0",
updated_at: "2016-09-02 08:57:40",
speaker_attitude: "",
government_support: "Unevenly recognized except in Kurdistan Region.",
institutional_support: "",
_other_languages_used: null,
domains_of_use: "",
speakers_worldwide: "232,300",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
speakers_worldwide_year: null,
bibliography_of_vitality: "",
bibliography_of_context: "",
bibliography_of_locations: "",
user_submission: "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is currently endangered. It was suppressed by the previous government of Iraq, and lost a significant portion of speakers due to massacres committed against the Christian Assyrian people and the subsequent diaspora. Its speakers are now also facing ISIS, putting further strain on the viability and the dire future of the language.",