Languages of Iraq
Iraq's Christians fight to save threatened ancient language
Iraq's shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian community is launching a new television channel as part of efforts to save their dying language, spoken for more than 2,000 years.
Syriac, an ancient dialect of Aramaic, has traditionally been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighboring Syria, mostly in homes but also in some schools and during church services.
Veysel Donbaz, interpreter of dead languages
The Sumerologist Veysel Donbaz speaks languages almost no one speaks today: Sumerian, Hittite, and two dialects of Akkadian, which are Assyrian and Babylonian.
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Turkey's first Kurdish-language search engine goes online
Turkey's first search engine in the Kurdish language has gone online after five years of technical work, research and development.
The search engine, called "Sekretin" - meaning success in Kurdish - will also have a video-sharing website in the next few months, its manager Serdar Anu?tekin told the state-run Anadolu Agency in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r on Nov. 5.
Christians in Turkey 'fearful' after knife-wielding men terrorize Istanbul church
A recent attack against a church in Istanbul has raised the fears of the Christian community in Turkey, a leading member of the countryâs Syriac community said in a statement on June 27.