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Att assuraya blev suraya är inga konstigheter då det är vanligt att tappa första "a:et".
"the dropping of an initial a- is a widespread phenomenon in many languages." (professor Richard N. Frye, Harvard University i "Assyria and Syria: Synonyms"). Robert Rollinger skriver i princip samma sak i "The terms "Assyria" and "Syria" again". - Detta är inga nyheter. Kan länka hundratal källor som säger samma sak, men vi börjar med dessa.

Vi fortsätter:

Professor Robert Biggs:

Similarly, Robert D. Biggs accepts genealogical continuity without prejudicing cultural continuity, pointing out that the modern Assyrians are the ethnic descendants of their ancient ancestors but became culturally different from them with the advent of Christianity



Vidare, professor Simo Parpola:
"In this context it is important to draw attention to the fact that the Aramaic-speaking peoples of the Near East have since ancient times identified themselves as Assyrians and sitll continue to do so. The self-designations of modern Syriacs and Assyrians, Suryoyo and Suraya, are both derived from the ancient Assyrian word for "Assyrian", Assurayu, as can be easily established from a closer look at the relevant words."




Richard. N. Frye vid Harvards Universitet:
"Some of those speakers of
Neo-Syriac who live or lived in present-day Iraq or Iran prefer to call themselves
Assyrians to distinguish themselves from the inhabitants of present-day Syria.
They are not wrong in this designation, or in claiming descent from the ancient
Assyrians, who had adopted the Aramaic, or the Syriac language, as it was later
called in Christain times, as their everyday tongue." (Assyria and Syria: Synonyms, p.34)




"I think there is every likelihood that ancient
Assyrians are among the ancestors of modern Assyrians of the area."
Professor Robert D. Biggs vid University of Chicago. (My Career in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology, p.10)


Påven Paul V till Shahen Abbas I: ”Those in particular who are called Assyrians or Jacobites and inhabit Isfahan will be compelled, unless You take pity on their misfortune, to sell their very children in order to pay the impositions levied.” Källa: "A chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia".


Vi fortsätter längre fram. I ett brev från Stephan D. Burnashev till den ryska generalen Paul S. Potemkin: "There are 100 villages inhabited by Assyrians in the domain of the Khan of Urmiye, in addition , some 20,000 families reside withing the borders of Turkey." Källa: "Armenians and Russia (1626-1796): A Documentary Record". Detta skrevs i slutet av 1700-talet.

Dr. Racho Donef säger: "Jag var mycket fascinerad av den komplexitet som omger den assyriska identiteten och jag ansåg att tesen om att denna identitet ska ha varit en konstruktion från 1800-talet var vilseledande, speciellt när jag fortsatte att hitta dokument som dateras till 1500-talet och tidigare (till exempel Mar Isho-Yab III skrivelse från 700-talet) som hänvisade till assyrierna, säger Racho Donef."

Michael the great" säger:
That even if their name is "Syrian", they are originally "Assyrians" and they have had many honorable kings ... Syria is in the west of Euphrates, and its inhabitants who are talking our Aramaic language, and who are so-called "Syrians", are only a part of the "all", while the other part which was in the east of Euphrates, going to Persia, had many kings from Assyria and Babylon and Urhay. ... Assyrians, who were called "Syrians" by the Greeks, were also the same Assyrians, I mean "Assyrians" from "Assure" who built the city of Nineveh. ( History of Mikhael The Great Chabot Edition p. 748, 750, quoted afterAddai Scher, Hestorie De La Chaldee Et De "Assyrie")