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Amtssprache von IQ
Amtssprache von Irak
Amtssprache(n) von IQ - Irak ist / sind
- Arabisch
- Kurdisch
Erstellt: 2012-07
Iraq
Languages:
are official in areas where they constitute a majority of the population),
- Arabic (official)
- Kurdish (official)
- Turkmen (a Turkish dialect) and
- Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic)
- Armenian
Assyrian
Assyrian
Aramaic, Imperial [arc] (Assyrian and Persian Empires: seventh through fourth centuries BC.)
Šlam - general greeting
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic [aii] (Iraq, Armenia, Iran, Syria, and Israel.)
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Assyrian (IQ)
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh (English) (as Author)
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh, by E. A. Wallis Budge
In der "Dewey Decimal Classification" findet man:
- 935 für "Assyria"
- 493 für "Assyrian language"
Item 97: Assyrian and Babylonian religious texts being prayers, oracles, hymns etc. / copied from the original tablets preserved in the British Museum and autographed by James A. Craig. v.13:pt.2
Published 1895
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- Name: Assyria
- Capital: Nineveh
- Regions: Nineveh (Iraq), Hakkari (Turkey), Mardin (Turkey), Hasake (Syria)Urmia (Iran)
- Language: Aramaic (Syriac)
- Religion: Christian
- Nationality: Assyrian
- Population: 4,005,250
Welcome to the home of the indigenous Aramaic-speaking Christian Assyrians of the Middle East.
The Assyrians of today are the descendants of the ancient Assyrian people, one of the earliest civilizations emerging in the Middle East, and have a history spanning over 6760 years.
Assyrians are not Arabian or Arabs, we are not Kurdish, our religion is not Islam. The Assyrians are Christian, with our own unique language, culture and heritage. Although the Assyrian empire ended in 612 B.C., history is replete with recorded details of the continuous presence of the Assyrian people till the present time.
Assyria, the land of the indigenous Assyrians, was partitioned after World War I by the victorious Allies, and is currently under occupation by Kurds, Turks, Arabs and Persians.
The Assyrians continue to be religiously and ethnically persecuted in the Middle East due to Islamic fundamentalism, Arabization and Kurdification, leading to land expropriations and forced emigration to the West.
Limericks on "Assyrian"
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
PDF version for the language Assyrian (Atoraya)
Source: Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies, USA (Philimon Darmo)
Profile
Native Name: None
Total Speakers
As speakers of the Eastern dialect of the Assyrian Language are scattered all over the world, no official figures are available for each individual country. A rough educated estimate would place the number somewhere between 0.7-1 million.
Usage By Country
The historical home of the Assyrian language is Iraq, North-Eastern Turkey and Iran. The majority still reside in the Middle Eastern countries of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Gulf region.
Background
The modern national language of the Assyrian people, who have not had a national home of their own since the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612 B.C., has evolved from the Akkadean (Assyrian and Babylonian) which was the ancient language of the people of Mesopotamia. It is written in the Eastern Syriac alphabet and diacritics. Over the centuries it has developed a close relationship with and has been used side by side with the Classical Syriac which continues to be the liturgical language of the Assyrian and Chaldean churches. The Classical Syriac was and remained as the only written language until about the middle of the nineteenth century when the written form of the modern Assyrian language was developed mainly through the efforts of the American and European Christian missionaries, in co-operation with a number of learned native Assyrians, in the Urmia region of North-West Iran.
The original written form was largely based on the Urmia dialect, simply because that is where the Christian missionaries established their headquarters and printing presses. Since then, a more standard written language, incorporating some features of the major dialects, has evolved. The Classical Syriac has been relied on, to some extent, as a source for the development of a rich vocabulary and syntax. After the advent of computers and the internet and satellite television, the modern Assyrian literature has thrived and continues to grow, both in its historical homeland in Iraq and also among the Assyrian migrant communities outside the Middle East.
Received 7/27/2009
Posted 9/2/2009
Checked 9/2/2009
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Assyrian (Atoraya)
Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian (Lišana Ashûraya)
"Assyrian" / "Neo-Assyrian" is spoken by some 3 million people in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, and among the Assyrian diaspora mainly in the USA and Europe. "Assyrian" is also known as "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic".
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assyrian
FALSTAFF
O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?
Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.
KING HENRY V
I was not angry since I came to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:
If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field; they do offend our sight:
If they’ll do neither, we will come to them,
And make them skirr away, as swift as stones
Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:
Besides, we’ll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them that we shall take
Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.
Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "assyrian" assyrian occurs 2 times in 2 speeches within 2 works.
The numbers below indicate the number of speeches in which assyrian appears in each listed work. If a single speech contains assyrian more than once, the speech will still be counted once as part of the total count.
- Henry IV, Part II (1)
- Henry V (1)
Assyrian
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Assyrian
The Assyrians were Semitic people living in the northern reaches of Mesopotamia; they have a long history in the area, but for most of that history they are subjugated to the more powerful kingdoms and peoples to the south. Under the monarch, Shamshi-Adad, the Assyrians attempted to build their own empire, but Hammurabi soon crushed the attempt and the Assyrians disappear from the historical stage. Eventually the Semitic peoples living in northern Mesopotamia were invaded by another Asiatic people, the Hurrians, who migrated into the area and began to build an empire of their own. But the Hurrian dream of empire was soon swallowed up in the dramatic growth of the Hittite empire, and the young Hurrian nation was swamped. After centuries of attempts at independence, the Assyrians finally had an independent state of their own since the Hittites did not annex Assyrian cities. For the next several hundred years, the balance of power would shift from the north to the south.
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Iraq
Languages:
are official in areas where they constitute a majority of the population),
- Arabic (official)
- Kurdish (official)
- Turkmen (a Turkish dialect) and
- Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic)
- Armenian
Assyrian
Aramaic, Imperial [arc] (Assyrian and Persian Empires: seventh through fourth centuries BC.)
Šlam - general greeting
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic [aii] (Iraq, Armenia, Iran, Syria, and Israel.)
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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
A language of Iraq
ISO 639-3: aii
Alternate Names: "Aisorski", "Assyrian", "Assyrianci", "Assyriski", "Lishana Aturaya", "Neo-Syriac", "Sooreth", "Suret", "Sureth", "Suryaya Swadaya"
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Location: Northern Iraq, mainly Dahuk and Ninawa governorates, 2 enclaves, one northeast of Buhayrat al Mawsil, the other, at Turkish border; scattered in Baghdad, Al Basrah, At Ta’mim (Kirkuk), and Arbil governorates.
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Dialects
Urmi Assyrian (Sipurghan, Solduz, Urmi), Northern Assyrian (Baz, Dez, Gavar, Jilu, Qudshanis, Salamas, Upper Barwari, Van), Central Assyrian (Anhar, Mar Bishu, Nochiya, Shamezdin, Tergawar), Western Assyrian (Lewin, Lower Barwari, Tal, Tkhuma), Sapna (Aradhin, Benatha, Daudiya, Inishke, Tina).
Similar linguistically to other Northeastern Aramaic varieties. Inherent intelligibility is difficult to estimate due to extensive exposure throughout the Assyrian diaspora to many dialects, especially Urmi and Iraqi Koine. As a result, intelligibility between dialects is as high as 80%-90%.
Urmian group subdialects: Urmi, Sipurghan, Solduz;
Northern Group: Salamas, Van, Jilu, Gavar, Qudshanis, Upper Barwari, Dez, Baz;
Central Group: Mar Bishu, Nochiya (Shamezdin), Tergawar, Anhar;
Western Group: Tkhuma, Lower Barwari, Tal, Lewin;
Sapna Group: Aradhin, Tina, Daudiya, Inishke, Benatha.
Standard literary Assyrian is based on Urmi. Many left original areas and developed a common spoken and written form based on the prestigious Urmi dialect as spoken in Baghdad, the United States, and elsewhere (Iraqi Koine). Most Christians understand it. This Urmi variety is different from Lishán Didán Urmi variety. All dialects of Western, Northern, and Central Assyrian are spoken in Syria. A member of macrolanguage Syriac [syr].
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Language Sample
Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian (Lišana Ashûraya)
"Assyrian" / "Neo-Assyrian" is spoken by some 3 million people in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, and among the Assyrian diaspora mainly in the USA and Europe. "Assyrian" is also known as "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic".
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"Assyrian Neo-Aramaic": the language of modern Iraq
Language Neo-Aramaic (Assyrian)
Iraq: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (in assyrian areas)
"Assyrian Neo-Aramaic", or "Assyrian", is a Northeastern Neo-Aramaic language spoken by an estimated 200,000 people throughout a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia in northwestern Iran, to the Nineveh plains, and the Irbil, Mosul, Kirkuk and Duhok regions in northern Iraq, together with the Al Hasakah region of northeastern Syria, and formerly parts of southeastern Turkey. In recent years, "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic" has spread throughout the Assyrian diaspora.
"Assyrian Neo-Aramaic" is closely related to "Chaldean Neo-Aramaic", both evolving from the same distinct Syriac dialect which evolved in Assyria between the 5th century BC and 1st century AD. There is also some Akkadian vocabulary and influence in the language. "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic" is written from right to left, and it uses the Madnhaya version of the Syriac alphabet.
Speakers of "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic", "Chaldean Neo-Aramaic" and Turoyo are ethnic Assyrians and are descendants of the ancient Assyrian inhabitants of Northern Mesopotamia. "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic" is the largest speaking Neo-Aramaic group (232,000 speakers), which follows "Chaldean Neo-Aramaic" (206,000 speakers) and Turoyo (112,000 speakers).
Despite the terms "Chaldean Neo-Aramaic" and "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic" indicating a separate religious (or even ethnic) identity, both languages and their native speakers originate from, and are indigenous to, the same Upper Mesopotamian region (which was "Assyria" between the 25th century BC and 7th century AD). Most speakers are members of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East.
"Assyrian Neo-Aramaic" is, to a significant extent, mutually intelligible with "Chaldean Neo-Aramaic" and, to a moderate degree, with Senaya, Lishana Deni and Bohtan Neo-Aramaic (which are, at times, considered Assyrian dialects). It is partially intelligible with Lishan Didan, Hulaulá and Lishanid Noshan. Its mutual intelligibility with Turoyo is rather limited.
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