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4,450

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Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
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Native Speakers Worldwide

4,450

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4,230 in Israel (2001). Population total all countries: 4,450.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Azerbaijan; Georgia; Israel; Iran;

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Non-monolingual speakers

almost all

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Year of info

1989

Location and Context

Countries

Israel, Persian Azerbaijan

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Other languages used

Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish

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Almost all forms of Neo-Aramaic now spoken in Israel are fraught with Hebrew intrusions, especially in the lexicon.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

4,000

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2010

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32.0383,34.7827

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Year of info

2013

Location and Context

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38.1150, 44.4555

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Native Speakers Worldwide

<5,000

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All

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For want of a census of the population in Persia no exact data are available on the number of the speakers of the dialect; it can be assumed that at no time it exceeded 5,000.

Year of info

1965

Location and Context

Countries

Persia; Iraq; Palestine; Israel

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Location description

At the time of writing most of the speakers were living in Israel.

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At the time of writing most of the speakers were living in Israel.

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Azeri Turkish; Kurdish; Persian

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Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

Northwestern Iran; Israel

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Location description

The majority of the Jewish community left the town in the 1950s and settled in the State of Israel.

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Script (Writing system)

Hebrew, with vocalizations.

Other writing systems

The majority of the Jewish community left the town in the 1950s and settled in the State of Israel.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

4,378

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