Neo-Aramaic dialect of Bohtan

Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
ܣܘܪܬ Sôreth
Native to	Russia, Georgia
Region	Krymsk, Novopavlovsk, Kvemo Kartli
Native speakers	760 (2020)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Northeastern Bohtan–Hertevin Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bhn
Glottolog	boht1238
ELP	Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
Bohtan Neo-Aramaic is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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Bohtan Neo-Aramaic is a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic originally spoken by ethnic Assyrians on the plain of Bohtan in the Ottoman Empire. Its speakers were displaced during the Assyrian genocide in 1915 and settled in Gardabani, near Rustavi in Georgia, Göygöl and Ağstafa in Azerbaijan. However it is now spoken in Moscow, Krymsk and Novopavlosk, Russia. It is considered to be a dialect of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic since it is a northeastern Aramaic language and its speakers are ethnically Assyrians.

The closest related dialect is Hertevin, and Bohtan also shares many similarities with the peripheral Qaraqosh dialect.^[2]