Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is the most spoken modern Aramaic dialect with about 9 hundred thousand speakers.It's most prestigious dialect is the Urmian dialect. It is traditionally spoken in Upper Mesopotamia, Northern Iraq, North-…
Ancient Aramaic was the language of the Arameans who first appeared in about the 11nth century B.C.E. in the region of Aram in modern-day Syria. The first document of Ancient Aramaic is an inscription dating from the…
Turoyo ( ܣܘܪܝܬ, Surayth) ,the mountain Aramaic, also known as Surayt, Suroyo, Suryoyo - is a Central Neo-Aramaic language spoken nowadays mainly by the diaspora by the Assyrian people, about 100 thousand. Turoyo in Mardin,…
leššānā Suryāyā Syriac language Syriac developed from Old Syriac,an Aramaic dialect spoken around the city of Edessa in Osroene.It rose to prominence during the first century century Ad. It came to be a major trade, litera…
At its height the Persian Empire was huge stretching from Macedonia and Thrace to the Indian Subcontinent. Occupation of Upper Mesopotamia. In the 6th century B.C.E. the Persian Empire devastated the lands of Mesopotamia incorpo…
