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ALSO KNOWN AS		Assyrian, NENA
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Aramaic
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
LANGUAGE CODE		08g
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Särdä:rïd (Sardarud) Sipurghan Solduz Christian Urmi
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Information from: “Personal communication on Urmia Northeastern Neo-Aramaic” . Charles G. Häberl (2016)

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
< 20,560
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"According to the census of 1390/2012, Urmia has 667,499 residents ("1.7% Assyrian"), Sopurghan has 243 residents (an Assyrian village), Solduz has 550,750 (of whom none are apparently Assyrian or Jewish), and Sardrud, today a suburb of Tabriz, has over 35,000K, albeit no information about the Assyrian population (according to one source, fewer than 0.6% of the 1,494,998 inhabitants (census of 1390/2012) of Tabriz are non-Azeri or Persian). That gives a maximum threshold of about 11,347 (Urmia) + 243 (Sopurghan) + 8,970 (Tabriz area) = ca. 20,560 speakers in and around Urmia."
Speaker number does not include speakers of the Iraqi Koine (based on the Urmian standard) spoken in diaspora communities.

PLACES: Iran; diaspora communities in Lebanon and throughout the West

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Urmia, Sopurghan, Naqadeh/Solduz, and Sardrud

PLACES: Northwestern Iran

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After the relocation WWI there was a push to standardize the language in the 1950's (Standard Written Language SWL), which was taught in schools.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Koine

PLACES: district of Urmia; Iran

Scripts (Writing system): Latin; Syrian
More on Orthography: Urmia NENA has a modern written tradition, and its development has had positive effects in that it allowed for the management of cultural heritage.

PLACES: Iran

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: The dialect of Sarda:rid is only spoken in exile (places which are not the homeland of the language), like many other Neo-Aramaic dialects that formerly had a much wider distribution in the Middle East.

	1988	The Sound System of Modern Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic)	Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz	Semitica Viva	2	Odisho, Edward	Odisho, Edward. 1988. The Sound System of Modern Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic). Semitica Viva 2 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).					Koine	many		After the relocation WWI there was a push to standardize the language in the 1950's (Standard Written Language SWL), which was taught in schools.	district of Urmia; Iran
	2001	Der neuostaramäische Dialekt von Särdä:rïd	Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz	Semitica Viva	26	Younansardaroud, Helen	Younansardaroud. Helen. 2001. Der neuostaramäische Dialekt von Särdä:rïd. Semitica Viva 26. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).									Iran	The dialect of Sarda:rid is only spoken in exile (places which are not the homeland of the language), like many other Neo-Aramaic dialects that formerly had a much wider distribution in the Middle East.
	2016	Personal communication on Urmia Northeastern Neo-Aramaic				Charles G. Häberl			< 20,560	10000-99999	"According to the census of 1390/2012, Urmia has 667,499 residents ("1.7% Assyrian"), Sopurghan has 243 residents (an Assyrian village), Solduz has 550,750 (of whom none are apparently Assyrian or Jewish), and Sardrud, today a suburb of Tabriz, has over 35,000K, albeit no information about the Assyrian population (according to one source, fewer than 0.6% of the 1,494,998 inhabitants (census of 1390/2012) of Tabriz are non-Azeri or Persian). That gives a maximum threshold of about 11,347 (Urmia) + 243 (Sopurghan) + 8,970 (Tabriz area) = ca. 20,560 speakers in and around Urmia." Speaker number does not include speakers of the Iraqi Koine (based on the Urmian standard) spoken in diaspora communities.			Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		Iran; diaspora communities in Lebanon and throughout the West	Urmia, Sopurghan, Naqadeh/Solduz, and Sardrud	37.3319, 45.0421
American Oriental Series	1982	A Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Kurdistan: Texts, Grammar and Vocabulary	New Haven: American Oriental Society		64	Georg Krotkoff	Krotkoff, Georg. 1982. "A Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Kurdistan: Texts, Grammar and Vocabulary." 64: New Haven: American Oriental Society.	HHOLD								Northwestern Iran

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