What are your favourite and least favourite Assyrian dialects?

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
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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.
 
Shahin said:
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.
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Chaldean may pronounce some words the same way Turoyo does (i.e. the pharyngeal H), but it's still basically Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.
 
Neon said:
Chaldean may pronounce some words the same way Turoyo does (i.e. the pharyngeal H), but it's still basically Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.
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Yup, but still more understandable to me than Assyrian neo-Aramaic, especially dialects spoken in Iran...
 
Shahin said:
Yup, but still more understandable to me than Assyrian neo-Aramaic, especially dialects spoken in Iran...
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Yeah that's true. If I spoke Turoyo I would also probably understand Chaldean much more than ANA. :)
 
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