• with the main Neo-Aramaic languages being Suret (~240,000 speakers) and Turoyo (~250,000 speakers). Western Neo-Aramaic (~3,000) persists in only two villages...
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  • and South America, Australia, Europe and Russia. Speakers of Suret and Turoyo (Surayt) are ethnic Assyrians and are the descendants of the ancient inhabitants...
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    tribal identification. Assyrians speak Akkadian-influenced Aramaic (Suret, Turoyo), one of the oldest continuously spoken and written languages in the world...
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  • Retrieved December 30, 2019. ""Dicionário Houaiss" unifica língua portuguesa' in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa". Archived from the original on June 24, 2021...
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  • names that originated in our land between Mesopotamia, Greece, and Canaan." Turoyo language Garshuni Cypriot Maronite Arabic Language attrition Language revitalization...
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    the war and all the survivors fled to other parts of Syria or to Lebanon. Turoyo speakers from Tur Abdin have settled in the province of Al-Hasakah. There...
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  • German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-03937-X. Cerulli, Enrico. “La lingua e la storia di Harar” in Studi Etiopici, vol. I, 1936 (Roma). Cohen, Marcel...
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    Northeastern Neo-Aramaic while the Assyrians in Turkey and Syria mainly speak Turoyo, a dialect of Central Neo-Aramaic. Other prominent ethnic groups present...
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    after Turkish) and Egypt. During the antiquity, Ancient Greek was the lingua franca for many areas of the western Middle East and until the Muslim expansion...
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    of Eastern Aramaic (including Suret (Assyrian and Chaldean varieties), Turoyo, and Mandaic) survive to this day among the Assyrians/Syriacs and Mandaeans...
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    (Assyrian/Syriac) Dictionary & Phrasebook: Swadaya-English, Turoyo-English, English-Swadaya-Turoyo. Hippocrene Books. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7818-1087-6. Woźniak...
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  • the Mandaeans. Modern Western Syriac (Central Neo-Aramaic), including (Turoyo and Mlahsô). During the first three centuries of the Common Era, a local...
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  • which are generally classified into 4 groups, only Northeastern (NENA) and Ṭuroyo groups exhibit split ergativity, which is formed in the perfective aspect...
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  • Neo-Aramaic, Northeastern Neo-Aramaic, Central Neo-Aramaic (Mlahsô language, Turoyo language), Neo-Mandaic, Hulaulá language, Lishana Deni, Lishanid Noshan...
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    In Braarvig, Jens; Geller, Markham J. (eds.). Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science...
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    the Achaemenids were greatly Assyrianized, and Aramaic continued as the lingua franca of the Empire in the region, with the Imperial Script the everyday...
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  • into the once independent Boer republics. Assyrians Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Turoyo, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic Semitic languages Christianity (Chaldean Catholicism...
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    In Braarvig, Jens; Geller, Markham J. (eds.). Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science...
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    the Diaspora, and during the Old Yishuv it had developed into a spoken lingua franca among the Jews of Palestine. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda then led a revival...
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    Arameans (Syriacs). Syriacs in the northeast of the country are mainly Turoyo-Aramaic speakers but there are also some speakers of Suret-Aramaic, especially...
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    composition of the region and facilitating the rise of Aramaic as the regional lingua franca, a position the language retained until the 14th century. The Neo-Assyrian...
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    descended from the Imperial Aramaic introduced by Tiglath-Pileser III as the lingua franca of ancient Assyria and the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 8th century...
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    heartland itself. From the 9th century BC onwards, Aramaic became the de facto lingua franca, with Akkadian becoming relegated to a language of the political...
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  • Neo-Aramaic, Northeastern Neo-Aramaic, Central Neo-Aramaic (Mlahsô language, Turoyo language), Neo-Mandaic, Hulaulá language, Lishana Deni, Lishanid Noshan...
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  • could refer to another city. Just as during the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the lingua franca of the Achaemenid Empire was Aramaic. By this time, the Aramaic script...
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  • Francisco Torres Oliver Madrid: Ediciones Akal, ISBN 978-84-460-2071-4. Surayt (Turoyo Aramaic) 2015 Alis bu Cëlmo dac Cojube w dat Tantelat Jan Beṯ-Ṣawoce Portlaoise:...
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