What if these programs ran in the background only when you are actively browsing ? <| sep |> The difference is one was unfounded nonsense , this is backed up by proof . <| sep |> These are all the ' same ' language , but will be used in different contexts for different purposes . Don ' t forget that the linguistic definition of a language , dialect , etc , is loose and there is no scientific consensus to what makes something anything ! But a general breakdown for daily purposesSyriac tends to refer to a literary dialect of Middle Aramaic , spoken roughly around 100 AD to 700 AD . It can also refer to modern languages , but often doesn ' t . Assyrian refers more often to modern languages , in particular to Assyrian NeoAramaic which is spoken in the Urmia region of Iran , or to a particular dialect of Akkadian . NeoAramaic another term for either modern languages with the Neo prefix or refers to liturgical AssyrianSyriacetc . So the terminology is a bit off when it comes to doing research on these languages or trying to learn them . What I would ask is who do I want to be able to speak to ? What countries do I want to travel to ? Second , how much do various dialects of Aramaic differ ? Is there a decent level of mutual intelligibility between them ? How well can a Syriac speaker and an Assyrian speaker understand one another ? This will depend on the majority language of the area Arabic , Persian , etc of the people as well as the religion of the group , as Jewish varieties can greatly vary from Christian varieties . I have always seen a spreadsheettable to work best imagine religion as the rows and the areas as the columns , and every combination makes up a different ' dialect . ' Dialects adjacent to each other or in the same rowcolumn have more chance of being mutually intelligible .