Suret

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Suret is a modern Eastern Neo-Aramaic language spoken primarily by Assyrian communities in parts of Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the global diaspora.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Suret canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Neo-Aramaic language ⓘ
language ⓘ
modern Aramaic language ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Assyrians ⓘ
surface form: Assyrian

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ⓘ
Surayt ⓘ
Sureth ⓘ
associatedWithChurch Assyrian Church of the East ⓘ
Chaldean Catholic Church ⓘ
Syriac Catholic Church ⓘ
Syriac Orthodox Church ⓘ
associatedWithReligion Christianity ⓘ
basicWordOrder SVO ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Chaldean Neo-Aramaic ⓘ
Turoyo ⓘ
hasDialect Barwar dialect ⓘ
Hakkari dialect ⓘ
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ⓘ
surface form: Iraqi Koine Assyrian

Jilu dialect ⓘ
Tyari dialect ⓘ
Urmia dialect ⓘ
hasFeature emphatic consonants ⓘ
grammatical gender ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
historicalAncestor Syriac ⓘ
surface form: Classical Syriac

Middle Aramaic ⓘ
languageBranch Semitic ⓘ
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages ⓘ
surface form: Afroasiatic
languageGroup Aramaic ⓘ
languageSubbranch East Semitic ⓘ
surface form: North‑East Semitic
languageSubgroup Eastern Aramaic ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Neo-Aramaic
primaryScriptVariant East Syriac script ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Syriac script
spokenBy Assyrians ⓘ
Chaldean Catholic Church ⓘ
surface form: Chaldean Catholics

Syriacs ⓘ
surface form: Syriac Christians
spokenIn Iran ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
Syria ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ
diaspora communities ⓘ
status endangered language ⓘ
subclassOf Afroasiatic language ⓘ
Neo-Aramaic languages ⓘ
surface form: Neo-Aramaic

Semitic language ⓘ
typology fusional language ⓘ
usedIn diaspora community life ⓘ
liturgical contexts ⓘ
media and broadcasting ⓘ
usesScriptVariant Madnhaya (Eastern Syriac) script ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Syriac alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Syriac script

How these facts were elicited

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