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Western Neo-Aramaic

Western Neo-Aramaic is documented on Dialect Atlas across 1 dialect: Western Neo-Aramaic.

Dialects of Western Neo-Aramaic

Western Neo-AramaicMaaloula Aramaic · SiryonThe only surviving Western Aramaic vernacular, spoken in the Anti-Lebanon villages of Maaloula, Bakhʿa, and Jubbʿadin north of Damascus by both Christian and Muslim communities. Fewer than 10,000 fluent speakers remain after wartime displacement, most of them older adults.

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