Chaldeans are ethnically Assyrians and religiously Chaldean.In modern day, the Assyrian Christianity divided into Assyrian (their own denomination), Assyrian Catholics/Orthodox, and Chaldean Catholics.Chaldean is a denomination of Syriac Christianity (Assyrian/Chaldean/Suryoyo Christianity) that made full communion with the Bishop of Rome and the rest of the Catholic Church. Chaldeans speak a different dialect of Assyrian-Aramaic (exact same alphabet, just few different words).In conclusion, Assyrian is an ethnicity and denomination of Christianity (just as there are ethnic Jews and religious Jews, two different things) and Chaldean is a Catholic denomination of Christianity.

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