Saving an ancient Assyrian language through calligraphy
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 2017
- Bethkustan, also known as Alagoz, is an Assyrian village in Mardin, an old Turkish city where diverse cultures and ethnicities meet. Over the years their numbers have dwindled, but one priest is using his calligraphy skills to keep the language alive.
Correction: Assyrians in Turkey call themselves Syriacs and speak the Syriac language. They are also connected to the Syriac Orthodox church.
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I respect this man. He is doing an excellent job to protect his cultural and ethnic heritage. I wish him a long and blessed life.
Chok tashakur erdim gardash! Hope i wrote that correctly, as i speak a little Turkish from Iran. :)
@I am a I don't know about that, but I hope he has an apprentice to replace him when he retires.
@@zyou8er shlomo suryoye hat ,
@@gulbahar4993 Marhaba Gardashim.
I'm happy that TRT World pays attention to our minorities in Turkey. It's lovely to see the Assyrians preserving their language and culture.
@Hoi19448239345 shut up lol.....we don't fight or kill anyone, go look at your brothers who kill themselves for zionist agendas every year 😂😂
Äbädä Irshi no aasyrians they are Arameans who speak aramaic
Wow. This is my village. My mum and dad once were born in this village. This summer I visited it and stayed there for one week. I met this priest in this video and prayed in the church everyday. We visited another church just besides this village named mor barsomo. It is sadly abandoned, over thousands of years old. It was a pleasure to visit my home village where my parents were born. My name is Elias (Eliyo in syriac), I got named from this church. I'll be visiting again next year in summer.
What language is the priest speaking? Can you understand what he's saying?
@@amoschinoz It's Assyrian.
@@amoschinoz Syriac Neo-Aramaic
@@blgram well this dialect is Surayt/Turoyo. The Assyrian dialect refers to the eastern Syriac.
Slomo kusnoyo.
I as a Muslim say God bless him and his people. They are truly beautiful and literally my living ancestors, having predominantly Aramaean in my blood.
In the eye of the God, we are all brothers.
What's your ethnicity?
we are all brothers
The ottomans punished traitors and so should we. That’s why I respect them.
Love to all Assyrians
Assyrians / Syrians Chaldeans arameans are one people
Yes but the language is Syriac
@@mlks4265 And who are the Armenians?
And who are the Armenians?
Amen. All Assyrians
Yes
I would love to visit this village and learn the language
I assyrian and its feel good to see turkish channel respect the assyrian History, the real ancient People of southeast Turkey.
would love to go there if I ever visit turkey and meet the Assyrians from Turkey 😊😊
Mor Gabriel manastari mardin midyat,
I don't know how thankfull i can be for keeping our tradition alive :3
a woderful story
this priest is a great man doing great work
i was happy to see how he is keeping it alive.
As I am Assyrian, Swedish and German, thank you for this video.
Isaiah 19:23-25
In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. 24 In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing[a] on the earth. 25 The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”
Lol
Amin
Long live our nation Assyria!
@@gulbahar4993 Suryoye = Assyrian
Amazing.
Thank you for your passion.
Blessings from YHWH to this priest for his reward in heaven will be greater than the blessings he received in life.
This is a random statement, but this is one reason preserving these languages and concepts is so important. If people claim to believe in a Messiah entering this world, it's important to consider these things because most people may not recognize Him Imagine a flaming eyed, surrounded by flaming angels, giant speaking a similar language, booming like thunder pronouncing judgement (and blessings) upon the world. . . . .the Medieval church heavily distorted him, but I'm not hating on Orthodox.
Respect from America 👌
A tear rolled down my cheek
We speak Aramaic. Suryoyo is a dialect. Sureth comes from Ashuret leshana d ashur Assyrian is your identity.
Please tell more about your language, I am very curious.
Are Aramaic and Syriac different languages?
@@jcxkzhgco3050 no they are different and where are you from
@@jcxkzhgco3050 Hallo. Suryani kadim arameac 2000years Christian history tarihi mülkü vatani topragi antiochein turabdin Turkey. ( mor Gabriel manistiri mardin midyat Turkey)yau Look online. )good blees all Christian ammin ammin ammin.
love assyrians from jewish assyrians to chaldean assyrians to syraci orthodox assyrians!! all!! thye have done through so much
I’ve always wanted to meet an Assyrian Jew :)
GOD bless You all 🙏
It’s not Assyrian, it’s “Suryoyo, Aramaic, Syriac, etc” bruh those are all Assyrian LMAO
I don't get why they just get a printing press or type up most of their scriptures in Syriac? it would be most faster than handwriting them.
This is so close to Arabic... didn't know Assyrian what that close.
very beautiful handwriting :)
Das ist aramaech ,good blees alle Christian ammin ,
Yes we are Assyrians/Syriacs, but our language is not Assyrian. Assyrian Akkadian language is dead. This is Aramaic language
Akkadian Assyrian was not the only Assyrian language 😂😂 Stop it bruh, Aramaic became an Assyrian language in ancient times and on record, it is an Assyrian language. Look at Greek, Hebrew, Egyptian, Persian sources
I Love those who maintain the traditions of old languages,
And hate those who spew their hateful nationalists venom to glorify or vilify a certain aspect with no vision.
Linguphiles, UNITE!
I would argue that Assyrian nationalism is needed, or that Assyrians atleast are granted an semi-independent region in iraq which they have been asking for for a long time, which would help the Assyrians keep their culture and language alive greatly. No hate, only love to you.
Fascinating video about one of the Middle East's most ancient peoples! However, I don't think "emotional music" needs to be played over the top of it. Also, why not let him speak in just Assyrian? Especially the scene with the children in the background and he's speaking Turkish. Wouldn't this teach the children that their language is subservient to Turkish? We face the same problem in the UK, with Welsh language, and its hard to keep a language alive if the people aren't made to feel that they can use it in as many places as possibe, not just their village or town.
What do you mean? They can only use it in their villages or town because they live there. In other cities they can't speak it because there are no assyrians. There aren't many assyrians around because kurds killed most of them. They can speak it if they meet another Assyrian in a bigger city or another country.
Also Turkish is the common language in Turkey. So kids know Turkish. Obviously he needs to speak the language they all know to teach them a new language.
@@whitenights4524 Yes, we Assyrians are born being bilingual, sometimes trilingual lol we thank God for allowing us to preserve our language Alhamdulillah
@@BinaryTechnique Türkçe biliyo musun?
@@whitenights4524 I can't read Turkish bro, only English, Aramaic, and Arabic
@@BinaryTechnique sorry I thought you are from Turkey :D
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These are Not "Assyrians" but Arameans (Syriacs). Arameans are Not Assyrians. You represent a state TV, you should know that! Get your information straight. So, No, he did not speak "Assyrian" but spoke Aramaic.
This is not Assyrian language, it is Suriac Aramaic Language. It is shame trying to name it what it is not. THERE IS NO LANGAGE CALLED ASSYRIAN
What Assyrian language?
This is Aramaic.
Assyrian/Aramaic/Syriac
Those are all practically the same language.
Syriac is Aramaic, but Assyrian is something different. It's an eastern semitic language.
Assyrian is written cuneiform.
Turks just don't know. I heard many Turks calling my people Assyrian, they misunderstand the word 'Syrian', which does not derive from 'Assyrian' but from an ancient Persian king. Assyrian is a missspelling of Assur, which is the true name of those people.
The word Aramaic is obviously in english, so how is it pronounced in the so called Aramaic language and what is the meaning of the word???
@@Adam-jh6gj Oromoyo means Aramaic.
@@Conan2403 ok, and what does it interpret to?
What does the word oromoyo, aramaye, Aram, Rama MEAN?
Doesn't the word Aram mean upper/higher and people were referred to as ARAMAYE ( people of upper/higher mountain) ???
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Whatever we call ourselves we will go under the name ASSYRIAN (SURYOYE) and remember that we are absolutely not Aramaic nomadic tribes, because of we speak a few words of their language. This is only anti assyrian propaganda as in the old testament and these are trying to give us a new identity. Unfortunately we are aware of our Assyrian historical continuity in both diaspora and nothern Mesopotamia, core country of Assyria.
You are Aramaic
You are misled
@@chaldeansarenoassyrianssto5716 Chaldeans are Assyrians
@@Fear6028 No, we are genetically closer to Mandeans and Iraqi Arabs than to Assyrians and our language is Aramaic, not Assyrian
@@chaldeansarenoassyrianssto5716 I’m Chaldean and we speak the same language as Assyrians and eat the same food
he is not talking in Assyrian but Turkish
Sagi shaper
Omg! At 2:30 that is my grandmother.
The languange they speak is Aramaic and they are Arameans
nakno e oromoyutho didokh, zokh marke yaw
@@enkidu9889 nekno karhog nekno ashur ebri di sharmota. Towarno o karho nashifo didog othuroyo kahbo
Arameans are gone, extinct. There is no actual Aramean continuity. No Arameans in the WW1 inquiries and not one reliable global source mentions any Arameans as a continuous ethnicity. Your separatist movement only started in the 80’s
@@basedchaldean lol I have classified files of ‘Assyrians’ that they try to change the name to assyrian . Good try . Based Nestorian . Atleast we don’t worship a Donkey with wings called ASShur
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How sad that the world does not preserve these people and keep them from being slaughtered.
You would think that it would be a must to help the first nation to adopt Christianity.
We have contributed so much to the world and get no recognition for it.
When will they let our people live in peace......
I think armenians adopted as a first nation Christianity
@@davidivanian6672 Armenian people where very powerful and contributed alot to the Assyrian empire.
They were able to turn the Assyrian and Armenian language into one hence everyone started to speak Aremiac.
But the first nation in the world to adopt Christianity was the Assyrians.
55 years after Jesus Christ was crucified , one of his disciples went to Odessa which was one of the last remaining cities of the Assyrians.
The king that reined there was a leper and the disciple healed him of his illness, once that happened the King turned Christian and then the people followed him .
That was the second golden age of the Assyrian nation where they took the word of God to all four corners of the world.
@@Rosemont765 dont get me wrong, i am armenian and also half assyrian. But I think you mix up armenians and arameans? Because armenian language is way different is indo europeam and not semitic. Neo assyrian derived from aramean. But i remember that assyrians at that time had no state anymore.
Assyria (/əˈsɪəriə/), also called the Assyrian Empire, was a Mesopotamian kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant that existed as a state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC (in the form of the Assur city-state[4]) until its collapse between 612 BC and 609 BC
So the topic was "who accepted christianity first as a state"
According to tradition, Christianity was first introduced to this area by the apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus in the 1st century AD. Armenia became the first country to establish Christianity as its state religion when, in an event traditionally dated to 301 AD, St. Gregory the Illuminator convinced Tiridates III, the king of Armenia, to convert to Christianity. Before this, the dominant religion was Armenian paganism, under the theological influence of Zoroastrianism.
And funny, this Story woth the ill king is the same in armenia. Gregor lusavorich (the lighbringer) healed the armenian king and armenia adopted Christianity
The first Christians were Assyrians back in the first century, not Armenians! Armenians always appropriate foreign history and culture
@@davidivanian6672 The first Christians were Assyrians back in the first century, not Armenians! Armenians always appropriate foreign history and culture
it is a disgrace and a lie to say that these people are Assyrians and that they speak Assyrian. The Assyrians and Assyrian language disappeared in the seventh century BC. Read the history. Syrians are Aramaic and they speak Suryoyo which is derived from Aramaic. These people are Syrian descendants of the Arameans. Stop faking history.
The language is Syriac which is a Aramean dialect. So basically saying that the priest is talking in Assyrian is simply wrong. Assyrian comes from the Akkadian language and sounds totally different and has totally different grammar. Regardless the conflict of the Aramean or Assyrian ethnicity, the language written and spoken by the priest is Aramean-Syriac.
We Assyrians are Aramaic Christians and we say we speak Assyrian it automatically means Aramaic Syriac, not Aramean
@Banana you are right, but Aramean became part of Assyrian language. So Modern Assyrian is a dialect of the East Aramean Syriac.
Why do you think it's called Syrian-Aramaic? Because it's spoken by Assyrians. We say Suryoyo in our own language, which means Syrian, which comes from Assyrian. Old Assyrian is to Akkadian like modern Assyrian is to Aramaic, they're dialects.
Syriac is an Aramaic dialect
The word syriac/suryoyo which the priest is speaking derives from Assyrian/Asuroyo as proven by the cineköy inscription found in turkey. Syriac is a mixture of akkadian and aramaic and is in no way pure aramaic and can therefore be called Assyrian aswell.
Am from that village bekusyone/Bethkustan, and we are not Assyrians. The translation is wrong we are Suryoye-Oromoye/Arameans and speek Aramaic.
All my cousins are from this village and we identify as Othuroyo = Assyrians
Dat is aramean! !!!!
Aramean = Assyrian
Ahnan kullan othuroyena
Perhaps the Turkish government can do more to attract these minorities back to the lands of their ancestors. It was only in the early 1900s that they were forced to flee for the safety of their lives...
It Syriac not Assyrian
The word syriac(suryoyo, suraya) originates from Ashuraya, Asuraya which the cineköy inscription in turkey proved and the language can therefore be called Assyrian aswell. The language is also a dialect of Aramaic(mixed with akkadian) so it could also be called aramaic.
@@user-ex2pc1up7h Made up nonsense.
same thing
@@babylonking6104not same
@@user-ex2pc1up7h why do you write "ashur" with a shin? Why not with the Tau?
That is not Assyrian. That is Syriac
We Assyrians speak Syriac
Assyrians are the ones who perfected and spread syriac aramaic, no one has claim to this language more than Assyrians, so yes, it's Assyrian
@@BinaryTechnique ok but assyrian sounds different. to me it sounds like assyrian is another accent
@@mariama8939 that's because Assyria was split in two during the Roman and Sassnid empires, western Assyrian got highly influenced by Greek and eastern retained it's original form but you can easily understand the differences. Western Aloho (God), eastern Alaha. Western Shlomo (Peace/Greeting), eastern Shlama etc...
Binary-Technique oh ok
Aramaic language! Assyrian is not a language
Then call it neo assyrian, doesnt matter. Ancient assyrians adopted aramean language as far as I know. So yeah ancient assyrian is not spoken anymore.
@Secular Turk and turks marrying their own cousins is so much more civilised or what?😂
@@davidivanian6672 Why do Armenians interfere in our fraternal affairs between Assyrians and Syrians? You better take care of your Karabakh problem!
@@stalkerportal1321 There are a lot of ayssrians in armenia
No, it’s Assyrian
Not assyrian its suryoyo
Suryoyo means Assyrian.
@@John-je1if 100% right
Assyrians / Syrians Chaldeans arameans are one people
Suryoyo???? Why don't you people tell the world your Assyrian!!!! You won't burn!!! Its All Assyrian!!!!
“Not Assyrian its Assyrian” is what you just said
This people not Assyrian people. This people Syriac people. This man speak by Turoyo dialect of New Syriac (Suryoyo) language. Syriac language is a Middle Aramean language but Assyrian language is a East Aramean language.
Furkan Çeçen Arameans = Assyrians
Agha Petros Assyrians a ethnic eastern semitic people but they are speak by a eastern Aramean( this is a middle semitic language) language. Syriacs not Assyrians.
@@Kurdedunaysiri the word 'Syriac' came from the word 'Syrian' and the word Syrian comes from the word Assyrian
World Wide Mapping maybe Assyrian come from Syrian but modern Asyrian language a different language from Syriac language( or languages)
@@Kurdedunaysiri just a different accent, i myself am an Assyrian and i have a lot of Syriac relatives and we speak the same language just with different accents
Assyrian sounds like arabic
Arabic derives from the Assyrian language(syriac-aramaic) language and its cousins. Arabic borrowed many words from syriac.
@@user-ex2pc1up7h Arabic did not derived from the Assyrian language. This has been proven false.
Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic/Ahmaric semetic brothers
Aramenian sons of aram
Assyrians sons of Ashur
Assyrians you mean!!!
You mean Armenians or Arameans?
No Clown i said ASSYRIANS that you are and will be!!!!!
ght Arameans are Assyrians and Assyrians are Arameans....shlomo u hubo b'kul umtho