Claim: Some Assyrian people communicate in Northeastern Neo-Aramaic.
Evidence: They speak modern Aramaic , whose subdivisions include Northeastern , Central , and Western Neo-Aramaic , as well as another language , dependent on the country of residence.
Northeastern Neo-Aramaic -LRB- often abbreviated NENA -RRB- is a term used by Semiticists to refer to a large variety of Modern Aramaic languages that were once spoken in a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia , in northwestern Iran , to the plain of Mosul , in northern Iraq.