Israel http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bjf
Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic
It was spoken among 8 Jewish families in the 1950s in Israel which eventually decreased in the number of people speaking since it was such a small amount of speakers to begin with.
The language is considered extinct because the last speaker died, but branched from this language was many other http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barzani_Jewish_Neo-Aramaic#Origin_and_use_today and these, but since there is no original speakers left its hard for them to relate to the dialect of the original language. This is a effective and ineffective method, because if they are able to somehow use new the languages that branched from the original they may able to get understanding of Barzani Jewish Neo-Aarmaic languages though and hopefully be able to read the surviving documents. Though it seems ineffective and unlikely that they'll ever be able to speak it since the dialect is so different from most languages.
The image above is a original document that is surviving of the language: http://img.search.com/thumb/b/b9/Targum.jpg/320px-Targum.jpg
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