40,000 Assyrians left in Syria?!?

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31601451
Christians are believed to have constituted about 10% of Syria's 22 million people before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began almost four years ago.
Assyrians, of whom there were about 40,000 in Syria, are Nestorian Christians and speak Syriac, a form of Aramaic, the language of Christ.
The largest concentration of Assyrians in Syria is in Hassakeh province, but there are also smaller communities in Aleppo, Homs and Damascus.
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My first thought,this CAN'T be right?
My guess is it's a typo and the author meant to say 400,000.
 
Lots of Assyrians had moved out from Syria by 4 years ago. 40K may not be much, but 400k is still too much.
 
I disagree, there should be 100k-300k Assyrians still in Syria considering most of them live in the bulk of The Hasaka region aka Gzartha/Gzartho
 
They don't count Syriac orthodox and the very few chaldeans in Syria.
And they wrote it "Nestorian Christians"...
 
Shahin said:
They don't count Syriac orthodox and the very few chaldeans in Syria.
And they wrote it "Nestorian Christians"...
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That's what I was thinking. Strange that they would be talking about the Suryoye as Assyrians without including the larger bulk of the east Assyrians.
 
It also says "and speak Syriac, a form of Aramaic, the language of Christ"
That does not describe all Assyrians living there.
 
Joe25 said:
It also says "and speak Syriac, a form of Aramaic, the language of Christ"
That does not describe all Assyrians living there.
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Explain to me then what criteria they should use for Assyrian
 
I think it would be best to be more general with descriptions of Assyrians so that all of them are included. If not, then being very detailed to include all dialects and such would also be good.
 
They did just Count the Assyrians from the Assyrian Church of the East, the article didnt include the Syriac orthodox and Syriac Catholic Assyrians and neither the Chaldean Catholic. The Assyrians from the ACOE are a minority in Syria and i dont think that they are 40.000 in Syria, not even before the War.
 
Joe25 said:
It also says "and speak Syriac, a form of Aramaic, the language of Christ"
That does not describe all Assyrians living there.
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Wrong, only Assyrians speak Syriac. There's no other people using Syriac...

Syriac is a Mesopotamian dialect of Aramaic.

Syriac is part of Aramaic but that doesn't mean Aramaic is Syriac.

There's other peoples who speak Aramaic but that doesn't make them Assyrian.

native Syriac-speakers are distinctly those that are Assyrian.
 
I'd use the term neo-aramaic to describe the whole family language of all of our people. I understand what you're saying but I think that some of our..'groups' wouldn't be accepting of the term Syriac.
 
Joe25 said:
I'd use the term neo-aramaic to describe the whole family language of all of our people. I understand what you're saying but I think that some of our..'groups' wouldn't be accepting of the term Syriac.
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Our language is academically accepted as Syriac... aka Leshana Ktavanaya...
 
I wonder how many Assyrians are left in Jordan. Wikipedia says they're over 100K there, which I highly doubt. When we were in Jordan (in the 90s even) there were barely over 3000 Assyrians.
 
Neon said:
I wonder how many Assyrians are left in Jordan. Wikipedia says they're over 100K there, which I highly doubt. When we were in Jordan (in the 90s even) there were barely over 3000 Assyrians.
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you must've been a bad counter then ? ?? ?
 
mrzurnaci said:
you must've been a bad counter then ? ?? ?
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Well, I was like 7 when we left Jordan. But really, from word of mouth, Jordan never had a lot of Assyrians. We were so few. I've been told this.

I would say that there was at least 20,000 of us at that time (in the 90s). Now we're definitely much less - say 10,000.

100K is an utter joke that's ubiquitously seen in those lousy statistic numbers. -_-
 
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