ISO 639-3 · trutru
Afroasiatic family
Turoyo
Surayt
Turoyo is a language of the Eastern Aramaic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Syria and Turkey. Wikidata counts about 84,000 speakers (1994). Wikidata describes it as “language from the Central Neo-Aramaic language family”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
tru- Glottocode
turo1239- Family
- Afroasiatic
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- UNESCO
- Severely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 29 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
2scripts
6levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Turoyo · Surayt |
|---|---|
| Also called | Surayt, Suryoyo, Syriac, West Syriac, Turabdinian |
| All speakers | 84,000 (1994) |
| Written in | Syriac alphabet, Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Severely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Turoyo
The branches above Turoyo, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Syria
araArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafemsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mapcLevantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 44 mazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeapcNorth Levantine ArabicAfroasiatic · 24.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationkurKurdishIndo-European · 21 mSafeacmMesopotamian ArabicAfroasiatic · 15.7 m3 · Wider CommunicationkmrKurmanjiIndo-European · 14.6 m3 · Wider CommunicationhyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · NationalkbdKabardianNorth Caucasian · 1.6 m5 · Developing