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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Urmia)
ܣܘܪܝܝܐ · Syrc script, written right to left. Spoken in Urmia and Salmas, and Tehran.
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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Urmia)
ܣܘܪܝܝܐ · Syrc script, written right to left. Spoken in Urmia and Salmas, and Tehran.
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aiiܣܘܪܝܝܐAssyrian Neo-Aramaic (Urmia) · Syrc
- Code
- aii
- Family
- Semitic, Aramaic
- Where
- Urmia and Salmas, and Tehran
- Phase
- on request
- Coverage
- not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.
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Writing
1 scriptIts own names
ܣܘܪܝܬSūret
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From one script to another
Syriac to Latin, ALA-LC (2012)Consonants only. Vowel points are left out of this demo.
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.
Resources
4 resourcesNorth-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Databasecorpus · University of Cambridge · checked 2026-10-23
verifiedSEDRA (Syriac lexical database)dictionary · Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute · checked 2026-10-23
verifiedUniversal Dependencies: Assyrian AS treebankcorpus · Universal Dependencies · checked 2026-10-23
verifiedGlottolog: Assyrian Neo-Aramaicreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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Linguistics
family, dialects, sounds and standing- Family
- Afro-Asiatic, then Semitic, then West Semitic, then Central Semitic, then Northwest Semitic, then Aramaic, then Imperial-Middle-Modern Aramaic, then Middle-Modern Aramaic, then Eastern Aramaic, then Central Eastern Aramaic, then North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
- Codes
- ISO 639-3 aii · Glottolog assy1241
- Dialects
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: Central Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Iranian Koine, Northern Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Sapna cluster, Urmian group, Western Group (31 listed in all)
- Standing
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: shifting (Endangered) secondary
North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
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Grammar in short
- Words are built on consonant roots, as in other Semitic languages.
- Nouns and verbs have two genders.
- The verb system is built on old participles.
to verify · Khan. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi. Brill.
Names
Speakers call their language Sūret. Community names include Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac. These are also identity terms, and preferences differ between churches and families.
to verify · Khan. The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi. Brill.
In law
The Constitution of Iraq (2005) guarantees the right to educate children in their mother tongue, such as Turkmen, Assyrian and Armenian, in government schools.Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations.
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Assyrian Neo-AramaicIDCDC-LNG-07 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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