Shahin
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after reading what you said, I thought up this question: Did Jews have this same conversation but with Hebrew and all the Hebrew dialects?
there's...
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Sephardi Hebrew
Mizrahi Hebrew
Yemenite Hebrew
From what I've read, these are just different pronunciation systems (with more or less different words from arabic/persan/whatever) for Biblical Hebrew and not dialects.
Compare it to Classical Syriac (Same language (vocabulary, grammar, etc.) just West & East pronunciation/vocalization).
On the topic, per intelligibility order:
Turoyo > Chaldean from Turkey (very close to Turoyo) > whatever eastern dialects mixed with persian/kurdish/arabic > Western neo Aramaic...
Above all dialects: Classical Syriac, would be fun to listen to people using Western vocalization and others answering using Eastern or vice versa.