The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> all the proof you need....

all the proof you need....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, November 27 2014, 16:13:36 (UTC)
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JJ. The ancient Assyrians forgot not only how to read and write Akkadian, their mother tongue, but also how to speak it. They adopted not only the Aramaic alphabet but also the spoken language of the Aramean people. Roux's purpose was to express the extinction of Assyrians as a people. They were a nation that had for long forgotten its mother tongue and, wrote he, "History tells us that a nation which forgets its language forgets its past and soon loses its identity." (p.412)

....what did our parents tell us? "Forget your language and you'll forget your identity". Of course, the language they were referring to was the Aramaic we speak....we all stopped speaking or understanding or reading Akkadian long ago....and their warning came true.

...we, ourselves, prove the truth of this by the fear we express when we warn our children not to forget "our" language...because with that goes our identity. This is exactly what happened to the ancients who apparently didn't listen to THEIR parents and soon forgot their Assyrian identity.

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"We are Assyrians" A Response by John Joseph Jeffrey - Thursday, November 27 2014, 14:16:59 (UTC)
- all the proof you need.... pancho - 11/27 16:13
  - so desperate you lie....or fudge... pancho - 11/27 16:24

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