Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (often abbreviated to NENA) is a term used by semiticists to refer to a large variety of Modern Aramaic languages that were once spoken of a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia, in northwestern Iran, to the plain of Mosul, in northern Iraq. The NENA languages contain a large number of loanwords from their surrounding languages: Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Azerbaijani and Turkish language. These languages are spoken by both Jews and Christians from the area.

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  • Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (often abbreviated to NENA) is a term used by semiticists to refer to a large variety of Modern Aramaic languages that were once spoken of a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia, in northwestern Iran, to the plain of Mosul, in northern Iraq. The NENA languages contain a large number of loanwords from their surrounding languages: Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Azerbaijani and Turkish language. These languages are spoken by both Jews and Christians from the area. Each variety of NENA is clearly Jewish or Christian. However, not all varieties of one or other religious groups are intelligible with all others of the group. Likewise, in some places Jews and Christians from the same locale speak mutually unintelligible varieties of Aramaic, where in other places their language is quite similar. The differences can be explained by the fact that NENA communities were small groups spread over a wide area, and some had to be highly mobile. The influence of classical Aramaic varieties — Syriac on Christian varieties and Targumic on Jewish communities — gives a dual heritage that further distinguishes language by faith. Many of the Jewish speakers of NENA varieties now live in Israel, where Neo-Aramaic is endangered by the dominance of Modern Hebrew. Many Christian NENA speakers, who identify as Assyrian or Chaldean, are in diaspora in North America, Europe, Australia and elsewhere. ISO 639-2 combines Assyrian Neo-Aramaic [aii] and Chaldean Neo-Aramaic [cld] as a "Syriac (generic)" macrolanguage, with the code syr.
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  • NENA
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  • Northeastern Neo-Aramaic
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  • traditionally spoken from the plain of Urmia to the plain of Mosul, in Iran, Turkey and Iraq; now, most speakers are in North America and Israel
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  • Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (often abbreviated to NENA) is a term used by semiticists to refer to a large variety of Modern Aramaic languages that were once spoken of a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia, in northwestern Iran, to the plain of Mosul, in northern Iraq. The NENA languages contain a large number of loanwords from their surrounding languages: Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Azerbaijani and Turkish language. These languages are spoken by both Jews and Christians from the area.
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  • Northeastern Neo-Aramaic
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