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3. RE: Online Aramaic Course

Jun-14-2001 at 01:42 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

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Last edited by Sargon on Jun-14-2001 at 07:28 PM (CT)

Thanks for the additional information. The development team at www.atour.com would like to develop an online educational center whereby teachers can access centralized curriculums, download and distribute them within their educational institutions. By avoiding potential religious controversies and other related issues, we would prefer to focus our efforts on preservation of our Aramaic language. (our language has been referred to by other names as well, see page endnotes below). Gradually, through the use and standardization of the language reference and usage, our nation which is currently divided along numerous religious (Christian) denominations and dialects can perhaps finally begin to speak and comprehend one another, a positive step in reaching national unity.

I've personally visited www.blackboard.com a few months ago during a feasibility study for an Assyrian teacher and found it has good benefits. However, I would opt to have our educational information located on our server for a variety of reasons, namely availability, security, internal teacher/student access capabilities, ability to experiment with unicode options and lastly, we consider the information to be sacred.

Initial educational objectives would be grammar level material, a combination of these websites integrated into one centralized distribution point. Here are the links...

Assyrian Aramaic Website
Learn Assyrian Website
Grammar Section of www.peshitta.org
Aramaic Lexicon and Concordance

Newly developed school with promising visions...
St. Hurmizd Assyrian Primary School

Other related information...
A Bird's Eye View of the Syriac Language and Literature

There are also schools located at the epicenter of Assyria (in Northern Iraq), named Nisibin, including several classes offered by Assyrian organizations in Western countries.

I would also like to mention that if there are people reading these messages and are active in educational curriculums or endeavors, please share your comments and experiences with us, thanks!

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Assyria \ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)   1:  an ancient empire of Ashur   2:  a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)   3:  a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of its inhabitants irrespective of their religion, race, or gender   4:  a democratic state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United Nations Charter — Atour synonym

Ethnicity, Religion, Language
» Israeli, Jewish, Hebrew
» Assyrian, Christian, Aramaic
» Saudi Arabian, Muslim, Arabic
Assyrian \ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)   1:  descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur   2:  the Assyrians, although representing but one single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.  These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.  No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of nationality.   3:  the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb

Aramaic \ar-é-'máik\ n (1998)   1:  a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.   2:  has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.

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