Chaldean Neo-Aramaic is a modern Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Chaldean Catholic communities of northern Iraq, particularly the towns and villages of the Nineveh Plains near Mosul. It belongs to the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic group of the Semitic family and is written in a form of the Syriac script. The language descends from the Aramaic that was once the everyday speech of much of the ancient Near East. Decades of conflict and emigration have scattered its speakers, and large Chaldean communities now live in the United States, Australia, Sweden and elsewhere, with Detroit home to one of the biggest. Worldwide speaker numbers are commonly estimated in the low hundreds of thousands, and many younger speakers abroad are shifting to other languages.
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