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PRESENTATION OF AN ACADEMIC TEXTBOOK "CLASSICAL ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE" HELD IN YEREVAN  

 

YEREVAN, Armenia, February 3. /ARKA/. Presentation of an academic textbook "Classical Assyrian Language" was held in Yerevan. According to the author of the book, employee of the RA MFA, teacher of Semitic languages at the Department for Oriental Studies of Yerevan State University Armen Hakobyan, the textbook is for orientalists, linguists, historians, theologians and Assyrians, living in Armenia. According to him, this is the first textbook of Assyrian language published on the territory of the former USSR.


"Armenia has become the forth language center in the world where Assyrian may be taught", Hakobyan said. In his words, so far Assyrian was taught in three languages- English, French, German. He emphasized that Armenia took the responsibility to preserve and develop the cultural heritage of national minorities, and the publication of the book will inhance the image of the republic.


The author noted that publication of the book was sponsored by the Armenian National Commission on UNESCO in the frames of Armenia's complying with its responsibilities for preserving the cultural heritage of national minorities and variety of cultures.


One of the literature forms of Aramaic language is called Assyrian, the basis of which makes the dialect of the city of Edessa in the Upper Mesopotamia. The carriers of the language played a significant role in spreading Christianity in Small Asia and beyond it. Currently, Assyrian language exists as a liturgical language of some near eastern churches. The first translation of the Bible into Armenian was made from the Assyrian.


The Assyrian community of Armenia consists of about 7000 people. Armenia is the only country in the region, where Assyrian language officially is a part of

The text-book has 40 lessons explaining the Assyrian grammar, morphology and stylistics, also contains an Armenian-Assyrian and Assyrian-Armenian vocabulary of 6,000 words. Classical Assyrian until now was not taught in Armenia though the other two Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Arabic have been since 2004, primarily through the efforts of Arman Hakobian.


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