Language contact between Aramaic dialects and Iranian

Protracted contact between speakers of Aramaic and of Iranian languages goes back to the middle of the 1 ^st millenium B.C. and they have continued, without any notable interruptions, until today. The Neo-Aramaic dialects evolved under a strong influence of Persian and in particular of Kurdish, with which they share a common territory. Persian and Kurdish impact is discernible in phonology and morphology but the strongest influence is felt in the lexicon where in some parts of speech loans from Iranian constitute more than 50% of the vocabulary, and in the verbal system which was completely reshaped according to the Indo-European model.