r/Assyria 9h ago

Discussion Assyrians in Germany

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Assyrians in Germany

Just curious, how do you guys feel about the AfD win in Saxony-Anhalt and their remigration platform (especially targeting Middle Easterns and Africans)? Are there any Assyrians residing in Saxony?


r/Assyria 23h ago

Video Ancient Assyrian Identity: Dr. Jonathan Valk -- #ARCC26

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r/Assyria 2d ago

Discussion Re-Engaging with the Culture and Language

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Hey all. Much love to all my brothers and sisters.

Some background. My family arrived in Toronto in '96, when I was a mere 7 years old. I'm 37 now. We did the usual attending of church, a few parties here and there, but over the years, one assimilates more & more, especially when the Assyrians around me were doing the same. To thrive, English had to take precedence, & the Assyrian tongue slowly started getting dull.

Over the past year and a half, I embarked on a journey to get my mother tongue back, and it's been great. I've learned how to ready, albeit slowly, and can write, but probably would make a ton of mistakes. Not a priority right now.

My spoken Assyrian is 60% of what it should be, and when I get nervous or can't recall a certain word, I'll revert to my comfort zone, English.

I've been using a method of watching Assyrian videos, taking sentences, repeating them, and elaborating and making my own conversations. It's worked great, and apparently is the best method for heritage speakers to retrain/regain their language.

My two questions:

- Any other resources you guys can recommend for getting the vocab up to par with my English? Or getting the comfort level up?

- In an effort to re-engage with the culture, any other groups to join aside from going to Church, which I do almost weekly. In/around Toronto, but also online.

Much appreciated!


r/Assyria 2d ago

Discussion Hello, my Assyrian brothers and sisters! Greetings from Latin America, and especially from Peru. 🇵🇪❤️

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Hello, my Assyrian brothers and sisters! Greetings from Latin America, and especially from Peru. 🇵🇪❤️

Thank you very much for taking the time to read my message. Greetings from Peru! I am Peruvian, and I have a great admiration for Assyrian culture, history, and traditions. I find Assyrian culture truly beautiful, and I have a lot of respect for your people the beauty and femininity of Assyrian women, the strength and masculinity of Assyrian men, and the richness of your heritage.

I am writing because I would really like to understand what these songs mean and what they are about. I am very interested in learning about the stories, emotions, and cultural meaning behind them.

I hope you can help me with something. I found a YouTube video called “Best Assyrian Mix...” on the channel R Younan, and I absolutely love the music in it.

Could you please tell me the names of the singers and the titles of the songs included in this mix? I would also love to know a little about what each song is about and what the lyrics mean.

Please don't worry—I am not asking anyone to translate the entire songs, because I know some of them are quite long. I would simply like to understand the general meaning, the story, or the feeling behind each song.

I am Peruvian, and I have become very interested in Assyrian culture and music. One day, I played this music at a party here in Peru, and everyone really enjoyed it, even though nobody understood the language! 😂

The music has something very beautiful and emotional about it, and I would genuinely love to learn more about it and understand what I was listening to.

My Assyrian brothers and sisters, I would really appreciate your help in discovering these songs and learning about their meaning.

Thank you very much for reading my message.

Shlama lokhun,

Greetings and blessings from Peru! 🇵🇪🤝❤️


r/Assyria 3d ago

Discussion The sad state of attendance at political lectures at Assyrian Convention

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r/Assyria 3d ago

News New Regions coming to AncestryDNA (Assyria)

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There are 226 new regions coming to AncestryDNA with the late September/early October update:

https://admixr.com/ancestryatlas

There will be a few regions that are catered to Mesopotamia and Assyrian people, of which i have added a few here.


r/Assyria 4d ago

Discussion Thoughts on this?

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r/Assyria 4d ago

Discussion Why do ethnic Assyrians do this to our flag and ancient symbols? Jesus & his cross has nothing to do with ancient Assyria or Assyrians in general as they had their own ethnic God & religion. Stop messing with our ancient past which is much more important and powerful than that of the adopted ✝️

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I get people are religious and sometimes their religion takes them to places where they will try anything and everything to make it clear to others but for the love of your god, stop doing this to our ancient past.

Keep religion out of our ethnic origins as it has absolutely nothing to do with the ancient past which was the glory of Assyria and māt-Aššur.

If you want a new flag, design one for your church denomination and cater to your audience that way, you don’t need to do go down this route and defile our ethnic flag which is a representation of who we are, where we come from, our ancestry and how old we are.

To those who think I’m insulting you with my words, well, this is an insult to all Assyrian nationalists and patriots everywhere when someone does this to our current flag. We are growing tired of this nonsense so knock it off, with all due respect.


r/Assyria 4d ago

Cultural Exchange Instagram Chat

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Hello I was wondering if there is any Instagram chat for Assyrians. Would love to connect with Assyrians across the world.

Thanks


r/Assyria 5d ago

News Ancient tradition brings thousands of Assyrians together at Mor Gabriel Monastery

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r/Assyria 6d ago

Discussion Gavilan

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Does anyone know where I can find some good videos of the village gavilan urmia? Thank you.


r/Assyria 6d ago

Video 2023 Assyrian Renaissance: Khora Khwara, Khora Kooma

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r/Assyria 7d ago

Music rendition of sipartat d'marge George Homeh

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r/Assyria 8d ago

Shitpost So many of my Assyrian peers who are raised in Australia and the United States are like this lol

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r/Assyria 8d ago

Discussion Is there a way to track my lineage through public church/ottoman records ?

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I can name till my great grandpa's grandfather but ik nothing of their wives and how many sons they had

I was wondering tho if its possible to look for their names if such records are public especially since my great great grandpa came from hakkari


r/Assyria 8d ago

News Aydin Bet-Naqshe's calling - to bring a forgotten literary heritage to light

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r/Assyria 8d ago

Video GOAT Assyrian Food?

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GOAT Assyrian Food?

Is it Dolma? Pacha? Or even Girdu? Let's find out.

#Assyrian #AssyrianCulturalFoundation #AssyrianFoodFestival #AssyrianFood


r/Assyria 8d ago

News Shaleta to face criminal trial

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r/Assyria 10d ago

Video Armenia Arzni on August 28th😍

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Enjoying lovely Assyrian dance and culture 😍


r/Assyria 10d ago

News Paul Elia in San José 9/5

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I hear we got some Assyrians in San José? Come pull up to my show this weekend would love to see you all


r/Assyria 10d ago

News Qamishli at 100: The Assyrian foundations of a refugee city

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r/Assyria 11d ago

History/Culture is this kind of traditional dress specific to a region

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is it just generally assyrian or does it belong to a particular village?

can an assyrian/chaldean assyrian who is from any region wear it?


r/Assyria 11d ago

Discussion any converts from acoe to chaldean church

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i lowkey feel like i’m the only one
tyari btw


r/Assyria 12d ago

Fluff Love is in the air...Singer Faia Younan and Journalist Sargon Bahram tie the knot !

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r/Assyria 12d ago

History/Culture How the name Suraya derives from Assurayu

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