An online learning space for Assyrian. Watch to get started.
In English, we call this language Assyrian. In Assyrian, we call it suráy. It sounds . It is the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi.
The Assyrian Christians of Urmi are a people indigenous to Northwestern Iran, specifically the town of Urmi and the region surrounding it. Today, after a century of migration and trauma, these Assyrians describe themselves as burbəzza ‘scattered’.
This project is the result of a joint thesis project between the Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Department at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences supported by Regius Professor of Hebrew Geoffrey Khan, head of the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database Project at the University of Cambridge.
This project is not finished. Here is a . Reach out if you have any ideas that are not on this list. I am trying to enjoy the summer with le fam, but I will still get as much done as I can before the first full release in August 2023.
Reach out to team@šlama.io. Emailing team@shlama.io works too.