Assyrian Aramaic Dialects | Similarities & Differences

Can Assyrian Aramaic speakers understand each other's dialects? In today's video we're focusing on one of the most ancient living languages as we compare the similarities and differences between some of the dialects of Assyrian Aramaic. Assyrians have a very fascinating history and their language and culture has influenced many groups across the Middle East. Much of this influence goes unnoticed at times, including the historical and ancient impact they had on Iran, the Persian language, and Iranian culture, something I brought up and discussed in this video.
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There are different varieties of Aramaic spoken by Assyrians, who are native to present-day Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey. In addition, there are Jewish varieties, written in the Hebrew script, spoken by Assyrian Jews. Today, Assyrians are among the Christian minorities in the Middle East, while prior to adopting Christianity, with a history stretching back more than 4600 years, they mainly followed ancient Mesopotamian religions. Being stateless and divided between empires and spheres of influence for centuries, served to divide the Assyrian people. Initially between East (Church of the East) and West (Syriac Orthodox). Eventually, these two also developed splits with groups submitting to the pope in Rome and forming the Chaldean Catholic Church (East Syriac rite) and Syriac Catholic Church (West Syriac rite). These religious schisms became formalized by the 1830s and were recognized by the Ottomans. By the 21st century, the Assyrians were fragmented along 4 main fault lines, not to mention people that became Protestant or Russian Orthodox in the 19th century. The distance and geographical divides between various districts/regions, national borders (such as those between the Ottoman and Persian empires), and the differences in local dialects with no strong unified national movement or school system stalled solidarity even further. This resulted in more dialects being formed and at this stage, most Assyrians identified using the same endonym (Suraye) and they called their language "Suret", with these names being pronounced differently in different dialects, but are essentially being the same. Furthermore, the surrounding Turks, Persians, Arabs, Armenians, Georgians, and others called Assyrians by different terms, such as the Persians calling them Ashuri (آشوری). In the native books, most of which were in Classical Syriac until the 19th century, Assyrians were identified as "Suryaye" (Syrians) and the language was termed "Suryaya" (Syriac). The 20th and 21st centuries dispersed Assyrians even further, communities became disjointed and began to see the differences between each other rather than the similarities.
I hope that this video will serve to unite Assyrians and Aramaic speakers from different backgrounds and bring them closer together!
The status of Aramaic began to rise historically when it replaced earlier Semitic languages such as Akkadian, Hebrew, and Phoenician. Spoken in many different variants, Aramaic become the lingua franca of much of western Asia, including the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Egypt. It was the language that Jesus spoke in the Galilean dialect and the language of parts of the Hebrew Bible. The language was used during the time of the Babylonian Empire as well as the Achaemenid Empire, becoming the lingua franca all throughout those territories. Because of its importance and wide use, the Aramaic script was adopted by other languages. For instance, it was used to write many non-Semitic languages, such as the Pahlavi script for various Middle Iranian languages. Modified forms of the Aramaic script were used to write many languages such as Parthian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, and Khwarazmian. It was also the liturgical language of religions that are now extinct, such as Manichaeism.

[@BahadorAlast]

For this week's video, we are focusing on one of the most ancient living languages, comparing some of the dialects of Assyrian Aramaic. I hope you enjoy it! Please follow and contact us on Instagram if you have any suggestions or if you speak a language that has not been featured before and would like to participate in a future video: instagram.com/BahadorAlast

[@user-zh7yr1up8g]

This is wonderful!! What an amazing video 🤗🙌❤

[@samspear8772]

This was very wholesome and educational. I learned a lot!

[@maayanhaza6178]

Did you know that Aramaic was still the first language of many Jews that were in Iraq, Southeast Turkey, and Western Iran? I mean in that area where there was a lot Aramaic-speaking Christian populations. After Israel was formed, a lot these communities moved away and eventually stopped using Aramaic and their language eventually got replaced by Modern Hebrew.

[@malolelei3937]

@@maayanhaza6178 Sorry, but not surprised to see another aspect of Middle Eastern culture vanished because of Israel.

[@maayanhaza6178]

@@malolelei3937 well actually Israel is the only country were the Jewish Aramaic speaking people still retain the lamguage. What you said can be said about any country. A lot of people who spoke endangered languages moved to other countries and eventually their descendants stopped speaking it.

[@siggy4259]

God bless you! I am western Assyrian. Living in Germany 🇩🇪

[@joseph_augustine]

Western Assyrians speaks West Syriac? Right?

[@siggy4259]

@@joseph_augustine Yes

[@grandmaster1294]

In vedic literature of Aryan Assyrian are potrayed as demons and called as assur.

[@assur86]

@@grandmaster1294 Assur was the pagan god that we used to believe in, and the place where all Assyrians came from. He had different names, Ashur, Ashshur, Ašur, Aššur. The name Assur means God of war. The Assyrians are arguably one of the the oldest Continuous living nations in existence that still use their original namesake, which is based on the God of Gods they knew and lived in service of, Ashur ( AH-shur, emphasis in 1st syllable always ). Ashuraye

[@AB-jl5cl]

Is Western Assyrian similar to Eastern Assyrian?

[@SassySidy]

This makes me soooooo happy to see my Assyrian brothers and sisters in this video. Thank you Bahador for making this video happen, this made me soooo happy to watch ❤️❤️

[@mahirhaxhiu7846]

I have watched you in other Assyrian videos. You are awesome Sidorie! Have you ever considered starting your own channel? I really hope you do that. Greetings from Albania!

[@derfalke624]

يحرق حريشو = يحرق راسو ؟

[@adrianalsabty7771]

First of all Assyria Empire wasn't Christian that time it was the entire Empire was speaking Aramaic. I am Aramaic man I was born in Iraq I live in America after the big change in America in 2003. Aramaic its similar to Hebrew language but not Assyria language. Assyria language originally it's Aramaic language.

[@ASK480]

@@adrianalsabty7771what is you’re point?😂

[@elizaa.367]

Shout out to beautiful Assyrian people from 🇦🇲 ❤️ I’m a huge admirer of your language, culture and history 😊🌹

[@mv.112]

Thank you!! us and armenians have always been the closest people to each other 🥰

[@elizaa.367]

@@mv.112 😍❤️

[@historicallegends3702]

Love and respect to Armenia 🇦🇲 from 🇮🇳 ☦

[@EliasAlucard]

I'm quarter Armenian myself, rest is Assyrian. Genetically, Assyrians and Armenians are the same people.

[@elizaa.367]

@@EliasAlucard beautiful combination 😍

[@marinae.3504]

I’m an Assyrian from Iraq and this made me smile ! Love this. Love the culture and I pray that our people continue to hold firm their traditions and language. The dialect I speak is very similar to the guy in the left bottom corner. It’s so interesting and beautiful to see the different types of dialects within the Assyrian language. The girl in the top right corner, I could understand the most and she definitely has the Farsi influence in the dialect she spoke. It’s also the most formal dialect. Well done and thank you for this Bahador. I love Persians and the Farsi language. I really hope to learn it one day !💛much love.

[@hy-pg8gd]

you are kirla right

[@user-sh7oq4pv3g]

Ana Jelvana. At???

[@marinae.3504]

@@hy-pg8gd ana Bazneta

[@Cotidianodeumpobre]

My father is siryac from mossul

[@edwinjose4297]

Loved this video. I am a syriac christian from Kerala, India.

[@mystic_monk]

മോനേ..😉😉

[@edwinjose4297]

@@mystic_monk 🤣🤣😌

[@joesmith4894]

I believe there were Syrian Christians who migrated to India centuries ago and they are mainly speaking Malayalam. It is estimated that the Malayali population is about 20% Christians if I am not mistaken? That's a large percentage!

[@edwinjose4297]

@@joesmith4894 you are right. Syrian christians migrated to kerala and also we had native christians of kerala. So indian and syriac culture started to mix. The Indian christians were under the ecclesiastical authority of Catholicos Patriarch of Church of east.

[@joesmith4894]

@@edwinjose4297 That's very interesting. Does the community speak the language?

[@ZeuzBluez]

Beautiful language, charming People. Amazigh greetings from Numidia.

[@khaledabdullah282]

Love you dear Assyrian cousins! Wishing and praying for better times in the future!

[@ilanyacobi2918]

This is very interesting. My grandparents are from Urmiya and they spoke a Jewish dialect called Lishan-Didan

[@ElegantiaDulcis]

Thats an awesome name. In my dialect "Turoyo", "lishono diđan" means " our language" or "our tongue"

[@kinegiros]

Lishana didan means in assyrian language *our language* I'm half notsyaya and half jiluaya

[@veefernaodias4134]

Four words just from my heart : I love Assyrian people

[@pedroxyo]

Are you Goan?

[@veefernaodias4134]

@@pedroxyo no, I'm Of Gallician (part of North western Spain) ethnic group, I was born and originally from Viana do castelo( Minho region), of Northern Portugal.

[@theowl2134]

Aramaic was the language of Arameans but was adopted by Assyrians as Aramaic was the lingua franca and also due to the co-mingling of Aramean and Assyrian people, The Assyrian Dialects of Aramaic have a more Akkadian flavor since Akkadian was the language of Assyrians. Assyrians are after all the descendants of the Akkadians

[@angialexy]

This was so interesting merci bahador . As an Assyrian born in Tehran and fully understanding 3 different Assyrian dialects,I understood the urmi & jillu dialect clearly.

[@ninivebotelho5774]

My name is Nínive (Nineveh) my father named me after the capital of Nineveh. I pray that God continues to preserve the Syriac christians (specially the ones that are still being persecuted and killed) around the world. And I also pray the language doesn't die. This video makes me happy

[@VanWilshere2134]

Glad to see that you are named after our famous capital. We are Assyrians, not Syriac Christians.

[@user-zg8mr9rp9o]

Bless you

[@carlosacta8726]

Niniveh Botelho, fala portugues?

[@ninivebotelho5774]

@@carlosacta8726 falo sim. Sou brasileira

[@carlosacta8726]

@@ninivebotelho5774 Vai ter que explicar como vc arrumou esse nome! Muito interessante!

[@issabeyatl6781]

This is the most beautiful and ancient language I love Assyrian culture and people so much it was pleasure having everyone in the video ☺️ I wish if I was with you all I understood all of the dialects 😊😊

[@nh2204]

Baseema raba Bahador!

[@s0ngf0rx]

doing these videos virtually have made them so much richer. awesome

[@BahadorAlast]

I'm very happy to hear that. When the pandemic started and we switched to doing videos online, I wasn't sure what to think of it at first, but a lot of positive has come from it!

[@s0ngf0rx]

@@BahadorAlast Im sure you guys miss doing these in person, but I love how you guys can now reach out to almost anyone and any language, in any country.

[@BahadorAlast]

@@s0ngf0rx Totally agree! While we definitely miss doing videos in person, as you mentioned now we can include any language from anywhere in the world!

[@jaycorwin1625]

Bahador, you're doing wonderful things for language lovers and lovers of history and culture.

[@diouranke]

You have been doing some groundbreaking work lately with these languages , Mamnoon

[@satanshameer690]

I'm happy that Bahador is connecting with all sorts of people lately

[@jmudikun]

What a beautiful video 🥰, Bahador. This was just lovely to watch and very enlightening. Thank you

[@edessa6609]

Thank you so so much for this video and for bringing our people together! Much love from the Suryoye in Germany ❤️

[@jeremyt192]

This is so cool! I remember suggesting an Aramaic dialects video on one your other Aramaic videos quite a while ago, and I'm sure many others also suggested it and wanted it, so it's so great to see it! I hope you'll feature more endangered/minority languages in the future. Thank you, Bahador and all the speakers, for your great work.

[@jelenaivanovic4216]

Such a fascinating language and history!

[@assyrianwaltoo7435]

Thank you so much dear Bahador for this amazing video. It makes so happy to see all my Assyrian brothers and sisters together in one video. Thank you guys so much for your time to make this video so special. Sending love to all of you, and best of luck dear Bahador for the upcoming projects🙏🏻♥️

[@DenaKartouzian]

Such a nice video! As an Iranian Assyrian, I had a hard time understanding different dialects :) Who is this Nicolas, such great information there! By the way the expression with the earrings exists also in Persian as : „ avizeye gooshet kon“ 🤩

[@uzayli4408]

We also have it in Turkish which is "kulağına küpe olsun" cheers 😊

[@VanWilshere2134]

Nicholas is actually an Assyrian academic who specialises in Syriac studies

[@user-zh7yr1up8g]

Wow! I'm so happy to see this! Can't thank you enough ❤❤

[@user-pl3zh8lu3i]

I realy like your scripture. Can you please write letter by letter and tell me what they sound like? I would really like to learn it but I cant find it anywhere in Internet.

[@Nithincr1]

@@user-pl3zh8lu3i I love Greec lag and Syriac too...❤️

[@galazulai1860]

you should do videos teaching aramaic please I wanna learn so bad, and there arant native speakers teaching, its really a beautiful language

[@sandroabba1742]

Thank you so much Bahador for making this video. I am an Assyrian myself and it was great to hear the differences in dialects. It would be very interesting to see a map showing where the parents of these guest speakers grew up as I'm unaware of the places mentioned. I wonder if the reason some could understand each other better than the others was that the areas they lived in were closer in distance to each other and the dialects were more commonly shared. Shout out from a Zakhonaya in Australia

[@aiowejdfkjkdnki4889]

Basically, it's all in Northern Iraq, Syria, west Iran, and Parts of Turkey. So if u know these maps; that's pretty much it! U r Good

[@snopure]

This channel always features such knowledgeable and charming guests! I also appreciate the rare glimpse that it offers into dialectal differences.

[@samspear8772]

Long live Assyrian people

[@BinaryTechnique]

Thanks bro

[@malekfilo6676]

So proud of my people thanks bahador for this opportunity to show the world how our Syriac language is fascinating and so our people Dear Syriac speakers keep ur language alive and always practice it and transmit it to ur children and the next generation

[@balton282]

This made me realize how different my dialect is from others. I could barely understand most of them. Amazing video!

[@ancientking7502]

thank you Bhador for arranging this. I really enjoyed watching it.

[@mystic_monk]

Language of isho mishiha. proud to be a part of Syriac Christianity good video lot's of love from Kerala.

[@gerald4013]

"Language of isho mishiha" > He didn't speak Modern Aramaic :-p

[@mystic_monk]

@@gerald4013 yes he didn't spoke modern aramaic but you know every language has it's own devolopment modern aramaic devoloped by same old galilian Aramaic (the language spoke by jesus) in my country we have lot's of languages my ancestors spoke our language with different version. now a days it devoloped to a better version now we're using it.. every language has it's own devolopment.

[@zubairmohammadyusuf942]

@@mystic_monk we love prophet Isa

[@mystic_monk]

@@zubairmohammadyusuf942 no I'm not isa is not jesus. jesus is not isa both are born in different mother & father so your freaking trick doesn't suit me..😉😉 man I studied your Qur'an & other Religious Text so you can't fool me..

[@mystic_monk]

@@zubairmohammadyusuf942 Arabic : isa East Syriac : iso West Syriac: yeshu Aramaic : yeshu See the difference.. So your arabic trick doesn't work..

[@RachelSarahThomas]

This was so fun to watch! Interesting and captivating!

[@worldwidemapping9314]

Love from an Assyrian long time fan 💪

[@rannaabro8765]

This was so interesting to watch. I would watch this weekly.

[@sepidehzandi139]

Assyrians have a beautiful culture and language! Such an amazing nation with so much history! They're are loved and well respected by Iranians. I found what you mentioned about their influence on Iran so interesting. I didn't know this before! I hope in the coming decades, the Assyrian nation will once again flourish in their ancestral homeland! With much love from Iran 💞💞😻

[@BinaryTechnique]

It's true, even Athura Mazda is from Assyrian

[@theark4833]

@@BinaryTechnique ahur mazda is not assyr god!

[@BinaryTechnique]

@@theark4833 Yes it is, it was taken from the deity Ashur...look it up

[@theark4833]

@@BinaryTechnique it was not take from assyr god they symbol are have simmelirity.

[@BinaryTechnique]

@@theark4833 Yes it was, I'm not arguing with you bro, just research the subject ya ibn kelb

[@DrRiq]

I didn't even know you guys still existed! That's incredible and amazing

[@denkoxh8610]

Loved this so much and thank you all for putting this together. I had always wanted to see a video comparing our diverse dialects. Being Assyrian Iranian and from Australia, I could really only fully understand the Urmi dialect. The others were definitely tricky for me, but it was fun trying to see exactly how much I could understand. Keep up the great work guys. Avetoon raba bassimeh & Merci! 👏👏👏

[@avexoidavex3577]

Please translate last fraise. Specially first word.

[@nielsv.2167]

Interesting episode, keep it up!

[@chicagobears85gobears41]

This is amazing. I learned a lot. Keep it going.

[@woopboop6432]

I've been waiting for this video

[@Lee-HATLM]

Thank you for this effort. I really enjoyed it. My grandfather is from Jilo, but I was born in Iran and I did not understand many conversations.

[@marto3378]

Great work Bahador!

[@elegant_melody3531]

This is so fascinating! My dialect is a little more like Nicolas and some words from the rest of them, but I understood Ivet more.

[@ardavanmohammadhassani243]

This video is great! Love to see an Assyrian from my hometown Urmia here!

[@starburstgalaxy8365]

Thank you Bahadir from Turkey😊 This is such a great video thank you.. I’m so interested in ancient Syrian culture (Süryaniler) so hearing their language is really fascinating👏🏻 Teşekkürler…

[@user-id1gi4cz1m]

Uzuldilerim turkiadan aturai varm chok guzel

[@bboyblue74]

Awesome presentation Bahador! Made me more interested in the Aramaic dialects. God bless the diaspora of the beautiful Assyrian people!

[@greendro6410]

This was very interesting listening to all these different Assyrian Aramaic dialects

[@DanielGembom]

Thank you Bahador for another great video. I'm a Hebrew speaker, but I familiar with Babylonian Talmudic dialect of Armaic. It looks that Ivet's dialect is the closest dialect to the one I familiar with. I agree with Nicholas's proposal. That could be very interesting to compare a Jewish dialect with a Christian one.

[@that1nigglet]

Funny, I speak her Aramaic and read the Talmud in Aramaic for fun (lomret l-rabbaninen, lol) and I agree with you, but if anything, I think the easiest to understand from a dialectical perspective was the one to the right of her, but of course thats like because I'm in contact with different dialects constantly and hers was the one that had the most words (maybe? pronunciation was also close) to what a standard Aramaic would be. I was thinking she was the closest to Targumi, but I have no idea how it's pronounced, I just read and write.

[@gautampram]

Assyrian is the liturgical language in some of the churches in India even today such as the Marthoma Church and Syrian Malankara Oriental Orthodox Church

[@Ssap354]

Yes nice, I know. Aramaic Assyrien speak aramaic. Some assyrian whant to say thet everyone are assyrian, but there are arameans and chaldeans to who has different region and empire history

[@user-sh7oq4pv3g]

@@Ssap354 Сабака лаит караван идёт

[@zackmano]

Amazing video! 🙌🏼💙 I am intimately familiar with the dialects of Aramaic transmitted through the Jewish tradition, from Daniel down to texts from the Medieval period, etc, and I study in Aramaic every day. I also stress proper authentic pronunciation, so I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. Thank you to everyone who participated in this 🙌🏼🙏🏼💙 I really believe conversations like this are the key to understanding and empathizing with each other and bringing people closer together. 🙏🏼💙✌🏽

[@alberthessari6528]

Very enjoyable and valuable video, Bahador jan, damet garm! 👍

[@Photographer339]

Proud of you people >>> hope you have more of these programs >> love & respect to all of you, proud to be Assyrian,

[@element4element4]

Great video, I really enjoyed it. I'm Kurdish and very fascinated by the Assyrian community and their beautiful language. Sadly our history has had dark chapters, but hopefully one day we can all return to our homelands and live in peace with each other.

[@TarikMaurits]

As I wrote beurre : this channel connecting people, making us to know more about many languages...merci !

[@MAX-iu2re]

Great job! I enjoyed every time saw your videos.

[@MaryAX]

This is lovely 😍 as a Maronite I really wished to see someone also from Maaloua speaking Western Aramaic, as I'm really curious if Neo-Assyrian speakers can understand it as well! Thanks for this fun and informational vid.

[@mv.112]

I’ve listened to them speak before and I can’t understand them at all. Their dialect hasn’t interacted with ours and it isn’t an Assyrian dialect so that’s why it’s not intelligible

[@MaryAX]

@@mv.112 it's true that it's not a dialect of Assyrian, but it's in the Aramaic family! The video says "Assyrian Aramaic" tho so you have a point, however it begs the question of if perhaps the western Assyrian speakers can understand a bit of it. It would be an interesting test. Aramaic is an interesting and broad language grouping.

[@BlueOcean696]

Turoyo Neo-Aramaic isn't an "Assyrian" dialect either and yet included in the video, lol.

[@MaryAX]

@@BlueOcean696 Yep, it's an often contested subject. Since Assyrians are the majority of the people who speak the language, it's only natural that this has colloquially stuck. What's super interesting is testing the mutual intelligibility between Aramaic dialects.

[@betnahrain6459]

Actually turoyo could be cinsidered as Assyrian Dialect when you call surith Assyrian, they all Syriac dialects, "turoyo" language is actually called Surayt, Eastern Syriac is called Surit but Booth are written identical in Syriac ܣܘܪܝܬ. So its the same language with different pronunciation.

[@8dinKer]

As a Hebrew speaker, that was fascinating. I could recognize a couple of words, and after translation could think of the roots of others

[@philliparieff7862]

same here; outstanding

[@sirenahaddad145]

Same, but I'm syrian. I could recognize some words we use it in our dialect

[@odaenathus7825]

Oh, a settler in Palestine. Our misfortune.

[@joaocoelho8320]

@@odaenathus7825 jews are indigenous to Judea and Samaria , just deal with it.. this is about language not geopolitics fuck off

[@odaenathus7825]

@@joaocoelho8320 There is no “Judea or Samaria” and Jews aren’t indigenous to Palestine.

[@josephdanno]

Beautiful video great job guys ❤️❤️❤️

[@ronaaron6935]

As a Hebrew speaker who knows Talmudic and Biblical Aramaic, I was able to understand only a few words as spoken, but when translated I was able to say, "oh, yeah...". It's fascinating that the Aramaic dialects are so different.

[@stevenv6463]

I read some Biblical Hebrew and want to get into Aramaic. Which books in Aramaic are easiest to understand from Hebrew?

[@ronaaron6935]

None are particularly easy from Hebrew; you need to learn the differences. It helps that the parts of e.g. Daniel that are in Aramaic have translations to Hebrew (or English, etc).

[@henrywudl2789]

Yes, I had the same reaction! It might be fun to do a video with Talmudic Aramaic.

[@jaymylotto8134]

@@michaelpardo8403 If you pronounce it using the Tiberian punctuation system, it should come pretty close. Of course it would represent a reconstruction of an Aramaic dialect from the 8th or 9th century. But you can get pretty close. The sound system is a common Semitic sound system.

[@jaymylotto8134]

@@michaelpardo8403 The system of hard and soft beged kefet consonants in Hebrew is borrowed from Aramaic. It also seems like a really cumbersome system to begin with. I personally suspect that people did not really speak that way in day to day speech (for example, "di va-dhi"). I suspect that this was simply considered fitting for poetic texts and high literature. I suspect that the pronunciation tradition for Talmudic and Biblical Aramaic should be considered a literary tradition. Also, these differences carry no phonemic value. I don't think a Syriac speaker would not understand what you're saying if you say "dhi" instead of "di".

[@magnolia_]

This was so fun to watch, I don't use any of these dialects but it was still fun to understand a lot.

[@rinaldir8628]

Totally interesting to listen to these various dialects. I'm from Indonesia and just started to learn Western Syriac, so for now this is the only dialect that I can understand, a bit. :) Thank you again, Bahador, for such a lovely video!

[@yaqo6577]

That's awesome. Do you mean Turoyo? What made you want to learn it?

[@roses.4684]

It’s called Surayt, not Turoyo. No one natively calls it Turoyo

[@joalexsg9741]

Fascinating to see modern speakers of these precious Aramaic dialects comparing their beautiful sister languages whose roots can be traced back to millennia of ancient civilizations! Thank you so much for this most interesting video enriching our cultural horizons and for these native speakers to grant us with the examples of their dialects!

[@beautyperfectionxo]

this is so fascinating! As a first generation Canadian Assyrian speaker I was surprised that I was unable to recognize a lot of what they were saying.

[@rajaaxx5265]

Aramaic has a special place in my heart after my language Arabic, although I dont understand it 😄😄❤

[@jambouh8575]

It looks like they don’t understand Aramaic either 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@quickresponse-pb5yg]

You’re right. Turoyo should not consider be Assyrian in my opinion. Different dialect/language imo and different history than the Assyrian homeland.

[@HmdlJjkmm]

لان لغتك ماخوذة من الارامية

[@roses.4684]

It’s called Surayt, not Turoyo. My fiancé is from Tur Abdin and his entire community (like all other Suryoye) call it Surayt and would take offense at being separated from other Assyrians. MYOB.

[@Marendra-Nodi]

Thank you for making this video. Im a Syrian orthodox christian from Kerala, India, and I always wondered the Syrian part of the name. That made me research about Syria and its religions, history, which lead me to Aramaic languages, I was interested more especially after realising how assyrians and armenians were persecuted in the 18 and 19 century. So happy to know its not lost and still spoken around the world! 😄

[@user-fb3nt7tc3w]

I am israeli and my grandfather is nashdidani jew who came back to israel from urmia. He used to speak the same language as shown in this video. Much love from israel to ashur🇮🇱

[@Caution40404]

Much love to Israel bro! My great grandmother (father's side) from Duhok in north Iraq was Jewish. There are many wonderful Aramit/Ashuri-speaking Jews from Iraq living in Israel and other parts of the world. Check out Yaakov on KZbin, his channel name is: "אֲרָמִית, יְהוּדֵי-אַשּׁוּר ‖ Aramit, Jewish Assyrians" He makes wonderful language and cultural videos on both Hebrew and Aramaic!

[@basilios8732]

Long live Israel and Assyria❤️❤️🌹🌹

[@basilios8732]

@Jinny Barebuckle bla bla bla bla , bla bla bla , bla bla , bla bla.

[@kinegiros]

God bless Israel brothers and old neighbours through history

[@assadnite8429]

Great Video !

[@straightforward4366]

I really like to see more of thes videos i learnd allot from them💯❤

[@angialexy]

Wow you have our famous Dr Nicolas al jiloo !

[@tigrisrgn4062]

it feels good seeing all kinds of assyrians uniting for the best!

[@surythesun]

Thank you so much i am proud to be given Suryani as my name!

[@alitalati]

Great video! Loved the variety of Assyrian presented here. I‘m a Kurd from Qamishli. I could pick up many words, but the best I could understand was the Suryoyo spoken by my fellow townswoman, I think Andia Aho? :) I used to live in Gherbiye neighborhood and most of our street were speakers of Turoyo ;) Greeting from Germany to my fellow townswoman and to all others 🙌

[@starburstgalaxy8365]

Hi, can I ask you something since you mentioned you’re Kurdish.. I’m Turkish but I’m very interested in archeology, history etc. especially in the history of South East Turkey, Mesopotamia, surroundings around Urfa, Mardin (Göbeklitepe). With that being said, the “Süryaniler” in Turkey are they oficially called “Assyrians”? Are they totally different than the Kurdish culture or do you have some similarities? Sorry if my question seems kinda ignorant but I’m so curious to know.. Thank you so much🙏🏼

[@barnosho1611]

@@starburstgalaxy8365 Hey, my father is "Süryani" from a village between Midyat and Hesno d'Kefo (Hasankeyf). Yes, Süryaniler are Assyrians. Turkish media always translates Süryani to Assyrian. We are different from Kurds in language and origins and have been there long before them, but they have ruled us for quite a few centuries with us being their Christian servants/slaves, that's how it worked in the Ottoman empire. Most Assyrians were forced to flee the region of Midyat in the late 20th century because the local Kurds and Turkish government purposely attacked, killed and discriminated them, along with the conflict between the PKK and the Turkish army. There used to be Assyrians all the way from Hakkari to Marash and Nusaybin to Elazig before WW1.

[@starburstgalaxy8365]

@@barnosho1611 Thank you for the info... Hasankeyf was also buried under water which is very sad.. Yes, I've also heard that the Süryani population was much larger in the past and it shrank quite a bit over time. Apparently there is a very little amount of Süryani left in Mardin region which used to be their holy land almost... I've been to Göbeklitepe, Şanlıurfa, Mount Nemrut in the past but I always wanted to visit the magical land of Mardin! And luckily in few days I'm going to visit that amazing place including Mor Hananyo Monastery (Daryülzafaran Manastırı), Tur Abdin region and ancient city of Dara. I'm so so excited... I think that the Süryani culture is a very ancient, wise, beautiful culture with lots of mysteries so it is quite sad that their history was filled with misery and sadness due to politics... I will pray for the lost souls when I'm there.. Thank you for the info my friend.... Note: The 3rd season of Turkish TV series called "Atiye" which is available on Netflix showcases quite a bit of scene from Mardin... I highly recommend you to watch it...

[@salahdinsaadouni9915]

I am an Amazigh speaker (North African language) I heard the guy from Australia said that they have a tradition of splashing each other with water.. we also have that in Morocco, this can go up to 15 days of splashing.. it's a lot of fun , a team of girls and a team of boys runing all over the village , if you are a boy you are only allowed to splash a girl and mostly a girl of your age and vers versa. It's interesting.

[@lets_wrapitup]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sj1684]

Growing up with parents who spoke two different Aramaic dialects, it was easy to understand all of them except for the guy who lives in Germany, his dialect was a bit hard. I got about 80% of it. What a great video. Thank you for posting!!!

[@georgedemirakos1715]

This truly is amazing...we are so similar yet so different...all glory to God.

[@alexeiabrikosov360]

When the lady said that she was born in the U.S but grew up in Syria, I realized for a moment that not that long ago Syria was such a safe and lovely place that people born in the U.S would choose to go live there. I mean you just think of how quickly times change, it's sad and devastating at times, but you wonder maybe the opposite can happen as well. What if in our lifetime we can see the reversal of the atrocities that took place in recent decades. What if the Middle East become great places for Assyrians again and many move back home?

[@alexeiabrikosov360]

What are the chance that we see an independent Assyrian state one day?

[@VanWilshere2134]

An independent Assyria will be the only way Assyrians will return to their homeland.

[@byzant2679]

@@alexeiabrikosov360 I am an Assyrian but in all honestly, there is a chance that the Assyrians could become an extinct people by the end of this century or at least the early half of the 22nd century tops. In regard to independence, there are many issues that prevent the Assyrians from achieving independence. However, these four points stand out the most. 1. We are a minority people within a larger minority living in an autonomous region (Iraqi Kurdistan). We are more likely to see an independent Kurdistan in our lifetime then an independent Assyria. The closest thing to independence we might ever achieve is a small autonomous region but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. 2. Although this is slowly changing, we still cling to our churches as a part of our ethnic identity. Etc...Chaldean Catholics, Syriac Orthodox/Catholic and Assyrian Church of the East/Ancient Church of the East. We must be united regardless of what Church someone is a a member of. For example, The Armenians are primarily members of the Apostolic Church but there are also Armenian Catholics...yet they are considered full blooded Armenians and do not cling to titles that further divide them. 3. There are more Assyrians living in the international world then in the traditional homeland. Plus, many are gradually losing their native language as most future generations of children will grow up in a non Assyrian speaking environment in their respective new homes. 4. Assyrians living in the traditional homeland are tired (physically and mentally). War and economic corruption has been a damaging plague to not only Assyrians but the Kurds and Arabs as well. The political climate of the Middle East will only worsen throughout this century.

[@uzayli4408]

Very cool! Loves from Turkey 🤗

[@sbztube]

I just wanted to express my admiration for a thoughtful and very skillful Mr, bahador alast.

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you ❤️❤️

[@NJColombiano777]

This is so cool to me! I want to learn Aramaic but I didn't know there were so many dialects.

[@lizh.413]

And imagine that this is only a fraction of the dialects!😅

[@mountsfenkfenk144]

Ancient dialects which are very important should be paid attention to and protected!!!

[@Normal_user_coniven]

I thought, before seeing this, that every other dialects of this language have disappeared, and only one dialect remains, with few talkers, like hebew. But this video showed to me that this language is still will living, and has so many dialects still here and there.

[@johnnyyokan6714]

Very nice video

[@speshul7525]

Just fascinating

[@mohamedbenabdellahaghzout95]

Interesting video Hello to you from a north African amazigh

[@nosaalkinani6304]

It's would be great thing if you make video similarities between Iraqi dialect and Assyrian dialect and we are very thankful for this video because Assyrian language historical language

[@Jaforey]

So much difference between each other’s dialects/language mashaAllah

[@Solomonpious]

Lovely video

[@hmmmhmmm9046]

Awesome video! Im a Syriac (assyrian/aramean) living in Sweden with origins from Tur Abdin. So glad to find a video like this in a big channel like this. Keep up the great work brother and do more content like this. Our language is almost extinct due to all historical persecutions and genocides commited on our people. Really cool to see a video like this where all these dialects come together

[@ritaa1359]

sorry what is even Syriac like stop with these labels its a disgrace to the indigenous people dont say ur Syriac ur assyrian the end because what is even Syriac there r people who will say Syriacs r a nickname for Syrians if ur syrian ur not assyrians those r two different cultures ones Arab one isnt

[@ritaa1359]

and theres no such thing as aramean the Syriac and aramean flag has a eagle on it if u say ur aramean/syriac then dont say assyrian when ur flag isnt the same as the assyrian one

[@edstark4655]

Im Assyrian from Tyari tribe ( Asheetha) we speak different to all these dialect's very interesting to hear all them all :)

[@kinegiros]

Not so different you just use sh instead of t

[@edstark4655]

@@kinegiros we use more Th

[@stellank450]

I love this video. Thank you. I live in Italy. Here you have many dialects. In the Asp mountains dialects developed independntly in the different valleys that had no contact in between once. very interesting to here your different dialects. A curiosity. The typical advent candles in the window behind the the Girl that lives in Sweden, reveals that this video was mad before Christmas. Nice. I lived in Sweden 30 years.

[@nasikarampour9169]

Interesting participants 👏👏

[@yigitaganoglu188]

Wow this video is amazing. I always enjoy your Aramaic related content. Thanks Bahador. Btw I'm so impressed by the guy who's Australian-Assyrian and living in Turkey. Can't say I've even heard of such a combination. He sounds cool :)

[@paweltrawicki2200]

These young people really seem to know their subject matter,kudos to them .

[@jennygibbons1258]

So interesting.

[@windbauram7659]

That was so much fun especially that I'm Arab from Syria, so I cracked up when they talked about the "aunt house=jail". I don't know if other Levant countries use that expression other than Syria xD I think I figured out a lot of the words that have been said by the guys at the bottom of the screan. I had the feeling of a hard European accent when the gentleman on the upper left side was talking "it doesn't sound a middle eastern language to my ears when he talked". I don't know why but as a non-Aramaic speaker I think the most Aramic accent to my ear is the lady on the right side up. It was refreshing to hear this language in a day-to-day dialogue "not in a religious speech". thank you so much for this video. And by the way, the expression that been used in this video we use them also in the Syrian Arabic dialect "h'ett hal-kalam h'alq be-danak = put these words as an earring in your ear", much love to our Assyrian brothers xoxo

[@danielmadmon]

As a Hebrew speaker it’s so clear that we come from the same language branch, it’s sounds just like Hebrew just a little different.

[@tranCe59]

That's we telling you since the beginning. Arabs are your blood line brothers. But the persians not, kurds not. Aramaic is an early semitic language which can be a roof over hebrew and arabic.

[@lifeisastruggle5517]

western-eastern Assyrian, Hebrew, Arabic belongs to the semitic languages.

[@tranCe59]

@@lifeisastruggle5517 True. So the interestin point is , why all the religion came for a certain blood line and spread out around by this blood line? Ain't it interestin? The God making them favor or , or? or? Whatever. These all can be nothing but a trash just in case.

[@philomelodia]

Hebrew and Aramaic are both northwest Semitic. Different branch than Arabic though. As a Hebrew speaker, you should check out to Tigrinya from Erritrea. Some of the words are so remarkably similar it’s startling. It helps if you use a more Semitic pronunciation of Hebrew though. Make all alefs into glottal stops and pronounce all the Ayins.

[@AnthroSurvey]

@Bahador Alast Who is the guest with the long beard, btw? He seems super knowledgeable and I’d like to borrow his expertise on a few things.

[@BahadorAlast]

His name is Nicholas Al-Jeloo. He's a professor and very knowledgeable for sure. I have personally learned a lot from him.

[@AnthroSurvey]

​@@BahadorAlast Knew it. When he mentioned that bit about Aramaic logograms, that was a huge signal. Does he have a public contact email for inquiries? I see a couple listed, but not sure which one he would prefer. ---------- P.S. TL/DR alert for you in regards to what you said in the video. See, we can go further and say that NW Iranics & Azeri actually share a huge chunk of autosomal ancestry with Assyrians, though it’s not due to super-recent events. This best candidate for this chunk corresponds to Hassuna culture, widespread initially in Jazeera and Azerbaijan, prior to its gradual demographic dispersal across the Near East and Caucasus(think Shulaveri horizon) in more than one pulse and context. We have ancient DNA samples. With this as a base, Assyrians have a bit of Arabian-like ancestry added in, corresponding to Semitic nomads in the area after 3000BC: Akkadians, Arameans-Ahlamu, and pre-Islamic Arabs. Probably, their non-Semitic substrate ancestors spoke Hurrian or Sumerian-related languages. Now, relative to the said chunk, you Iranics/Azeris are a bit more shifted towards BMAC and archaic Iranian plateau ancestry, corresponding to influx of early Iranics from Central Asia/Khurasan who brought this alongside, of course, their more “pivotal”(language-wise) Andronovo ancestry. Your pre-IndoEuropean substrate circa Zanjan or so probably spoke Hurrian(Mannai). Now, Assyrians also have Andronovo-like ancestry, though it’s somewhat less than you, and this is prolly related more with other Indo-Iranian speaking nomads originating from the Timber Grave horizon(Stubnaya) who crossed the Caucasus and contributed to the rise of Mitanni and Kassite power, both Hurrian-ruled states, albeit, with said Indo-Iranic chariotry elites(maryanu). And ofc, Azeris and Iranics alike carry some Turkic ancestry as well. And, you can probably guess than Armenians are also quite rich in this ancestry(Hurro-Urartian base). Syrians of any sect and Christian Anatolians aren’t far behind, though it’s somewhat more diluted there by more archaic Anatolian and Levantine substrates. Feel free to consult me more on archaeogenetics-related matters for more in-depth discussions.

[@asultan6667]

As a iraqi living in the netherlands and my friend a kurd from turkiye we loved this movie and where listining to the dialects that you guys speak we understood a lot and enjoyed the video very mutch just a reminder that we are all one big family love for you guys al

[@chanelle8226]

Enjoy the video so much thank you 🙏🏻