Western Neo-Aramaic

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Loghtha Siryanooytha, Maaloula, Maalula, Neo-Western Aramaic, Siryoon

17,400 (2019).

Rif Dimashq governorate: Al-Qutayfah district, Bakh’a, Jubb ’Adin, and Ma’lula villages; Qalamoun mountains, 50 km north of Damascus.

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7 (Shifting).

Maaloula (Ma’lu:la, Ma’lula, Maalula), Bakh’a (Bax’a), Jub-’adin (Jubb ’Adi:n). Little dialect variation.

Home, and as literary and religious language. Shifting to North Levantine Spoken Arabic [apc].

Grammar. Texts. NT: 2017.

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab]. Syriac script, Western variant [Syrj].

Christian.