Syriac language
Dialect of Middle Aramaic
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| April 2023 | A team of AI researchers completed the first AI translation model and website for classical Syriac, marking a significant technological advancement for the language. |
| 2016 | Syriac language instruction began in public schools in the Jazira Region during the 2016/17 academic year. |
| August 2016 | The Ourhi Centre was founded by the Assyrian community in Qamishli to educate teachers and prepare for teaching Syriac as an additional language in public schools in the Jazira Region of North and East Syria. |
| 2014 | An Assyrian nursery school was opened in Yeşilköy, Istanbul after a successful lawsuit against the Ministry of National Education, enforcing non-Muslim minority rights as specified in the Treaty of Lausanne. |
| 2014 | A scholar proposed the term 'Central Syrian Aramaic' for a regional dialect of Old Aramaic from the first centuries of the 1st millennium BC, introducing another potentially ambiguous linguistic term. |
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