The Neo-Aramaic dialect of Mlahso represents an extinct variety of Aramaic closely related to Ṭuroyo, historically located near Lice in Diyarbakir. The recordings were made by Otto Jastrow in the 1968\tnd69 and 1989. The informants were at least Kurdish-Aramaic bilinguals. Historically, the Christian community of the villages of Mlaḥso and ʿAnša were presumably bilingual in Armenian and Neo-Aramaic; also dialects of qəltu-Arabic used to be spoken in nearby villages.
