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==Dialects== Turoyo has borrowed some words from [[Arabic language|Arabic]],{{sfn|Tezel|2015a|p=554-568}} [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]], [[Armenian language|Armenian]], and [[Turkish language|Turkish]]. The main dialect of Turoyo is that of [[Midyat]] (Mëḏyoyo), in the east of Turkey's [[Mardin Province]]. Every village have distinctive dialects (Midwoyo, Kfarzoyo, `Iwarnoyo, Nihloyo, and Izloyo, respectively).{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} All Turoyo dialects are mutually intelligible with each other. There is a dialectal split between the town of Midyat and the villages, with only slight differences between the individual villages.{{sfn|Jastrow|2011|p=697}} A closely related language or dialect, [[Mlahsô language|Mlaḥsô]], spoken in two villages in [[Diyarbakır Province|Diyarbakır]], is now deemed extinct.{{sfn|Jastrow|2011|p=697}}
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