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Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (often abbreviated NENA) is a term used by Semiticists to refer to a large variety of Modern Aramaic languages that were once spoken of a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia in northwestern Iran to the plain of Mosul in northern Iraq. As of the 1990s the NENA group had an estimated number of speakers just below 500000 spread throughout the Middle East and the Assyrian diaspora.