Turoyo

E105663

Neo-Aramaic language modern Aramaic language vernacular language

Turoyo is a modern Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Syriac Orthodox Christian communities from the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey and neighboring areas.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Turoyo canonical	9

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Neo-Aramaic language ⓘ modern Aramaic language ⓘ vernacular language ⓘ
alternativeName	Neo-Aramaic languages ⓘ surface form: Modern Surayt Surayt ⓘ Suryoyo ⓘ Ṭuroyo ⓘ
ancestor	Syriac ⓘ surface form: Classical Syriac Aramaic ⓘ surface form: Middle Aramaic
closelyRelatedTo	Syriac ⓘ surface form: Classical Syriac Mlahsô ⓘ
endangermentFactors	language shift to majority languages ⓘ migration ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Assyrians ⓘ surface form: Assyrian/Syriac people Syriac Orthodox Church ⓘ surface form: Syriac Orthodox Christians
glottocode	turo1252 ⓘ
ISO639-3	tru ⓘ
languageFamily	Semitic languages ⓘ
lexicalInfluence	Arabic ⓘ Kurdish ⓘ Persian language ⓘ surface form: Persian Turkish ⓘ
morphologicalFeature	root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ suffix conjugation ⓘ two-gender system ⓘ
phonologicalFeature	emphatic consonants ⓘ pharyngeal consonants ⓘ
religiousCommunity	Syriac Catholic Church ⓘ Syriac Orthodox Church ⓘ
spokenIn	Australia ⓘ Canada ⓘ Germany ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ Sweden ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ Syria ⓘ Turkey ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
standardizationEffort	Surayt/Turoyo standardization projects in Europe ⓘ
status	endangered language ⓘ
subfamily	Neo-Aramaic languages ⓘ surface form: Central Neo-Aramaic
syntacticFeature	basic SVO word order ⓘ
traditionalRegion	Hakkari region ⓘ Mardin ⓘ surface form: Mardin Province Tur Abdin ⓘ Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: northern Mesopotamia Southeastern Anatolia Region ⓘ surface form: southeastern Turkey Şırnak ⓘ surface form: Şırnak Province
usedFor	community media in the diaspora ⓘ liturgical songs and hymns ⓘ oral storytelling ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script Syriac alphabet ⓘ surface form: Syriac script

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aramaic → hasDialects → Turoyo ⓘ

Sūrāyē → modernSpokenLanguagesInclude → Turoyo ⓘ

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic → closelyRelatedTo → Turoyo ⓘ

Eastern Aramaic → hasPart → Turoyo ⓘ

Neo-Aramaic languages → includes → Turoyo ⓘ

Syriacs → modernSpokenVarieties → Turoyo ⓘ

Tur Abdin → traditionalLanguage → Turoyo ⓘ

Suret → closelyRelatedTo → Turoyo ⓘ

Sureth → closelyRelatedTo → Turoyo ⓘ