Aramaic

===Modern Western Aramaic===
{{Main|Western Neo-Aramaic}}
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Very little remains of Western Aramaic. Its only remaining vernacular is [[Western Neo-Aramaic]], which is still spoken in the villages of [[Maaloula]] and [[Jubb'adin]] on [[Syria]]'s side of the [[Anti-Lebanon Mountains]], as well as by some people who migrated from these villages, to [[Damascus]] and other larger towns of Syria. [[Al-Sarkha (Bakhah)|Bakh'a]] was completely destroyed during the war and all the survivors fled to other parts of Syria or to Lebanon.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.aymennjawad.org/2020/01/the-village-of-bakha-in-qalamoun-interview | title=The Village of Bakh'a in Qalamoun: Interview | date=26 January 2020 }}</ref> All these speakers of modern Western Aramaic are fluent in Arabic as well.{{sfn|Arnold|2012|pp=685–96}} Other Western Aramaic languages, like [[Jewish Palestinian Aramaic]] and [[Samaritan Aramaic]], are preserved only in liturgical and literary usage.