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Re: Hear Ancient Assyrian Being Spoken
Posted by Kris (Guest) - Tuesday, May 9 2006, 18:21:47 (CEST)
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>Assyrians say that this language was extrememly powerful. The Urmia dialect of Assyrian which almost all Assyrians have conformed to and now speak (and which idiots call "leshana khata") is the closest to this ancient dialect. It employs a similar grammatical structure and syntax.

I find your comments troubling and too simple. I am yet to hear that any dialect within our plethora of dialects can be closer to the original because the original had dialects as well. Assyrians always want to convene to a stronger side. A single and “pure” source to gravitate to. This is how small and insignificant we are. We can’t even understand the diversity among our own.

Urmia dialects have been greatly influenced by the Persians just as the other dialects have been influenced by Arabs, Turks, etc. I have heard this theory many many many times by many different people who have said the following:

1. The Jacobites are the closest to the ancient dialect than any other Assyrian dialect
2. Most Assyrian text is written in the Urmi dialect so therefore Urmi dialect is the closest.
3. The Assyrian villages who escaped into the mountains thousands of years ago were far removed from other influences and maintained a stable and unhindered dialect.
4. The Arameans of the West (Suryoyo) had more similarities with the ancient language than any other dialect.

So let me ask you which dialect we are speaking about? Akkadian? Sumerian? Assyrian? Aramaic? Etc? So in this hodge-podge of languages and dialects, what were are saying is somewhere there is a “TRUE” language. Then the there must be a time in which the language was recorded and the single “purest” language. Was that time, pre or post the fall of any of these empires? Is there a single text?

These in my eyes are ridiculous claims. I hate to break this to you but, it is "leshana khata" just as mine is and it becomes even more "khata" everyday.

Dr. Robert, if you are reading feel free to chime in and enlighten.



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