Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction 2. Eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran -- 2.1. Eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran: overview 2.2. The Armenian dialects 2.3. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanjî) 2.4. The Arabic dialects of eastern Anatolia 2.5. The Neo-Aramaic dialects of eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran 3. Northern Iraq -- 3. Northern Iraq 3.2. The Arabic dialects of northern Iraq 3.3. The Iranian languages of northern Iraq 3.4. The Neo-Aramaic dialects of northern Iraq 3.5. Iraq-Turkic 4. Western Iran -- 4.1. Western Iran: overview 4.2. The Turkic varieties of Iran 4.3. Bakhtiari 4.4. The Neo-Aramaic dialects of western Iran 4.5. Hawrāmī of western Iran 4.6. Persian 4.7. Kumzari 5. The Caspian region and south Azerbaijan: Caspian and Tatic 6. Caucasian rim and southern Black Sea coast -- 6.1. Caucasian rim and southern Black Sea coast: overview 6.2. Laz 6.3. Ossetic 6.4. Romeyka 7. Appendix: Basic lexical items in selected languages of Western Asia Index of language names -- Index of place names -- Index of subjects