Aramaic has a documented history stretching back around three thousand years, which makes it one of the oldest continuously spoken Semitic languages. Once the administrative language of ancient Near Eastern empires, it survives today as a cluster of modern Neo-Aramaic varieties. The best known are Assyrian Neo-Aramaic and Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, spoken by Christian communities with roots in northern Iraq, south-eastern Turkey, Syria and north-western Iran, along with Turoyo from the Tur Abdin region of Turkey. Many speakers now live in the diaspora, including communities in Europe, North America and Australia. The traditional writing system is the Syriac script, and classical forms of the language remain in liturgical use. Speaker estimates vary considerably, but the modern varieties together are usually put in the hundreds of thousands.
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