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[[File:Chaldean_People_of_Mesopotamia_Iraq,_Syria,_Iran_and_Turkey_2015-05-06_00-11.jpg|thumbnail|Chaldean People of Mesopotamia Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey]]
The '''Chaldean''' [[diaspora]] (''Galuta''{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}) refers to the estimated population of [[indigenous peoples|indigenous]] ''ethnic'' [[Chaldean people|Chaldeans]] who share a common language of Chaldean [[Eastern Aramaic]] and ancient [[AssyriaMesopotamia]] in-[[Upper Mesopotamia]]n ancestry who migrated outside of their original Mesopotamian [[Chaldean homeland|homeland]] of northern [[Iraq]], northwest [[Iran]], northeast [[Syria]] and southeast [[Turkey]].<ref>"The Chaldean Assyrian Syriac People of Iraq: An Ethnic Identity Problem: by Shak Hanish http://www.syriacstudies.com/2013/02/04/the-chaldean-assyrian-syriac-people-of-iraq-an-ethnic-identity-problem-shak-hanish/</ref>
They are a [[Semitic people|Semitic]] [[Christian]] people, with most being members of the [[Assyrian Chaldean Church of the East]], [[Syriac Orthodox Church]], [[Chaldean Catholic Church]], and [[Ancient Church of the East]], [[Assyrian Pentecostal Church]] and [[Assyrian Evangelical Church]].
The worldwide diaspora of Chaldean communities begins during [[World War I]], with the [[Chaldean Genocide]] by the [[Young Turks]] government of the [[Turkish people|Turkish]] [[Ottoman Empire]], together with allied [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]], [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] and [[Arab]] tribes. The emigration of Chaldeans out of the Middle East accelerated further beginning in the 1980s, with mainly [[Neo-Aramaic]] speaking ethnic Chaldeans fleeing persecution in the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] and in [[Ba'athist Iraq]], and again in the wake of the [[Iraq War]] during the 2000s.<ref name="Codeswitching Worldwide II"/>
