Assyrian people speak only ancient Aramaic languages.
Assyrian people . They speak modern Aramaic , whose subdivisions include Northeastern , Central , and Western Neo-Aramaic , as well as another language , dependent on the country of residence . Western Aramaic languages is a group of several Aramaic languages developed and once widely spoken throughout the ancient Levant , as opposed to those from in and around Mesopotamia , which make up what is known as the Eastern Aramaic languages , which are still spoken as mother tongues by the Assyrians and Mandaeans of Iraq , north eastern Syria , south eastern Turkey and north western Iran .