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Koy Sanjaq Surat is a modern Eastern Syriac-Aramaic language. Speakers of the language call it simply Surat or ‘Syriac’. It is spoken in the town of Koy Sanjaq and its nearby village of Armota in the province of Arbil as well as in Ankawa. The speakers of Koy Sanjaq Surat are traditionally Assyrian Chaldean Catholics.Koy Sanjaq Surat seems to be related to Senaya which is spoken by Chaldean Christians who originally lived east of Koy Sanjaq in the city of Sanandaj in Iran.