Assyrian language

The term Assyrian language can mean any one of:

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• Akkadian language: an extinct Semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia.
• The Aramaic language as the official language of the Assyrian Empire.
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: a modern Aramaic language.
• Syriac language: the classical language of literature and liturgy in the Assyrian Church of the East, and other churches, is sometimes called Assyrian.
• The Syriac language and numerous modern Aramaic languages grouped together as Assyrian.