Turoyo speakers are mostly Eastern Christians and adherents of the Syriac Orthodox Church, but there are also some Turoyo-speaking adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church, especially from the town of Midyat. The language is also spoken throughout diaspora, among modern Arameans and Assyrians. It is classified as a vulnerable language. Turoyo is not mutually intelligible with Western Neo-Aramaic, having been separated for over a thousand years, while mutual intelligibility with North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic languages is limited.