what language do the assyrians speak?
Akkadian language
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 Aramaic dialects and written script survive to this day among the Christian Assyrian people of Iraq , south eastern Turkey , north eastern Syria and north western Iran . 

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 Assyrians had begun to adopt Christianity from the first century and Aramaic remained the spoken language of the region . 

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 The Assyrian Empire resorted to a policy of deporting troublesome conquered peoples ( predominantly fellow Semitic Aramean tribes as well as many Jews ) into the lands of Mesopotamia . While this allowed some integration , it may have also led to the various rebellions within the Empire in the 7th century . By the 6th century , the indigenous and originally Akkadian speaking Semites of Assyria and Babylonia , spoke Akkadian infused dialects of Eastern Aramaic , which still survive among the Assyrian people to this day . Consequently , during the Persian rule of Assyria , Aramaic gradually became the main language spoken by the Assyrians . Even before the Empire fell , the Assyrians had made the language the lingua franca of its empire , and many could speak Aramaic , and the ruling elite of Assyria needed to have been bilingual , capable of speaking both Akkadian and Aramaic . The conquest of Assyria and the violent destruction of the cities meant that many of these bilingual skilled individuals died with their language and the Aramaic script was incorporated into the Assyrian culture by around the late 6th century BC . 

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 Notable name changes of Assyrian geographical locations : 

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 Prior to the Persian rule of Assyria , The Achaemenids were greatly Assyrianized , and Aramaic continued as the lingua franca of the Empire in the region , with the Assyrian script being the everyday writing system . Assyrian ( Sumero @-@ Akkadian ) religion within the empire were tolerated , and the judicial system , calendar and imperial standards imposed by the Assyrians remained in force everywhere . 
