12.2363, Sum: Status of Assyrian Language

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2363. Mon Sep 24 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.2363, Sum: Status of Assyrian Language

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Date:  Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:  "Ahmad R. Lotfi" <arlotfi at yahoo.com>
Subject:  RE: Q: O'Geady's Contemporary Linguistics

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Date:  Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:16:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:  "Ahmad R. Lotfi" <arlotfi at yahoo.com>
Subject:  RE: Q: O'Geady's Contemporary Linguistics

Dear linguists,

In my posting to LINGUIST (vol-12-2314) concerning Steinberg'
chapter in O'Grady et al (2001), I wrote:
>
>(3) On page 376, Steinbergs considers Assyrian to be an extinct
>language with no native-speakers. As far as I know, we've got
>some native-speakers of this language living in Urmia (north-
>west of Iran). Iranian Assyrians are a small Christian
>community, and this must have helped them to retain their
>native language.
>
Larry Trask and Peter T. Daniels remind me that the variety
spoken by Iranian Assyrians (like those from Iraq and Syrria)
must be a variety of Modern Aramaic which they themselves call
Assyrian, too. The Assyrian language itself is now extinct.

Best regards,

Ahmad R. Lotfi



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Department of the English Language, Chair
Azad University at Khorasgan Esfahan, IRAN.
Mail: lotfi at www.dci.co.ir
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