The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> ...also from Saggs.....

...also from Saggs.....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, May 25 2013, 18:19:58 (UTC)
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...the first paragraph quotes Saggs...the second is by Joseph.

“Before too long Aramaic had displaced Akkadian even as the language of everyday speech within Assyria itself. According to H.W.F Saggs, the cities of Assyria proper had become so cosmopolitan and polyglot, that the people of actual Assyrian descent were possibly a minority within those cities.” pp. 12-13.

...this tells us that even back then, 2000 years ago, "pure" Assyrians did not exist. Already they were "possibly a minority". In any empire this becomes the case with the passage of time and the conquest and resettlement of other peoples. In the last 100 years of the Roman Empire I doubt there were any "pure" Romans left...yet a few million non-Italian people, from Britain to Arabia were known as Romans.

....further proof is right before our eyes and ears...we don;t speak Akkadian, which is the real language of the ancient Assyrians...the language they wrote their own history in, the language of the cuneiform tablets and monuments...if Aramaic became the language of the survivors, why didn;t they transcribe their cuneiform texts and culture and history into Aramaic...why let the dust and dirt swallow them up? If those remaining cities were filled with "Assyrians" why didn;t they transcribe or write down their own history in Aramaic, their new language...why did they let it die, well before they became Christian? How come the Euros had to teach us "Assyrian"? And how come we spent so much time and energy transcribing Greek to Arabic...and preserving Jewish history for the Jews...what about our own so-called history...why did we let the dust cover it?

...and Josesph (note: do NOT bring me a linguist or anthropologist or taxi driver to "refute" Joseph...kay?)

“With a much larger Aramean population now under its rule, far removed from the Assyria homebase, the smaller, ethnically-Assyrian, population could not resist aramization, a process that gradually transformed the cultural face of the empire, ‘leading to the Assyrians being out-lived and absorbed'." p 11

...and, as Joseph points out later, this absorbtion is exactly what happened to all the people who adopted Arabic as "their" language and forgot their own, and also adopted Islam in place of their own religions and in time, Arabic CULTURE....the same thing happened with Aramization as happened with Arabization, as happens today with Americanization and etc.



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