Every year on the second Saturday of October, Armenians everywhere celebrate the Feast of the Holy Translators, in ...

There is a movement to make Syriac an official language in the government school curriculum in northeast Syria. At present, Arabic is the language of the classroom. If the movement is successful, ...

Istanbul -- A man on a seemingly impossible mission to save the script of his people from becoming extinct, Gabrial Aktas, the last Syriac calligrapher in Turkey, is almost 70. He is no longer capable ...

For decades, grammarians studying ancient Syriac texts were puzzled by the meaning of a symbol that resembles a modern colon. But a Cambridge researcher says that he's uncovered the mystery behind ...

The ancient Bible, in an Aramaic dialect, will be shown in the Ankara Museum of Ethnography. Turkish police testified in a court hearing in Ankara last week that they believe the manuscript of a bible ...

The dictionary project was started by the late Ishu Barutha (inset) and completed by his children Edwina Barutha (left, main) and Edward Barutha (right, main) as well as a community committee. H.B Mar ...