List of loanwords in Assyrian Neo Aramaic

Loanwords in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic came about mostly due to the contact between Assyrian people and Arabs, Iranians, Kurds and Turks in modern history. Assyrian is one of the few languages where most of its foreign words come from a different language family (in this case, Indo-European).

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• Arabic
• Persian
• Kurdish
• Turkish
• Other
• References

Unlike other Neo-Aramaic languages, Assyrian has an extensive number of Iranian loanwords Depending on the dialect, Arabic loanwords are also reasonably present. Some Turkish loanwords are Turkified words that are of Arabic origin. To note, some of the loanwords are revised (or "Assyrianized"), and therefore would sound somewhat different to the original word. Furthermore, some loanwords may also have a slightly different meaning from the original language.