Differences in speech patterns have developed between the older and younger generations, in that the younger residents of the town, who have been through the modern education system, tend to mix more Arabic in their speech than the older generations. Some younger speakers can avoid introducing a large quantity of unadapted Arabic elements into their speech by a concious effort. Others, however, are beginning to lose a sound active grasp of the Aramaic dialect. If this situation continues, there is a serious danger that knowledge of the dialect will be lost by the future generations over the next few decades.

Many of the Aramaic dialects of the communities on the Moqul plain are in a precarious situation since they are rapidly becoming overwhelmed by Arabic.

There is a considerable influence of Arabic on the Neo-Aramaic dialect that is heard spoken nowadays. Most people introduce Arabic words and phrases into their Aramaic speech without any adaptation to Aramaic morphology. A policy of arabicization has been pursued among among the minority communities in Iraq in recent decades. Following government requirements, the school education of children over the last generation has been only in Arabic. Although the dialect has clearly been exposed to the influence of Arabic over many generations, this influence has never been so overwhelming as it is at present.

There are no written records of the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Qaraqosh from earlier sources.