Today the vast majority of people in Lebanon speak Lebanese Arabic as their first language. More recently, some effort has been put into revitalizing the Western Neo-Aramaic as an everyday spoken language in some ethnic Lebanese communities.[7] Also, the modern type of Eastern Neo-Aramaic has an estimated 2 - 5 million speakers, mainly among Assyrians,[8] a Christian ethnoreligious group related to but distinct from the Maronites of Lebanon.