ELP ID
31689
ELP Language
Urmia Northeastern Neo-Aramaic
Speaker Number
10000-99999
Public Comment
"According to the census of 1390/2012, Urmia has 667,499 residents ("1.7% Assyrian"), Sopurghan has 243 residents (an Assyrian village), Solduz has 550,750 (of whom none are apparently Assyrian or Jewish), and Sardrud, today a suburb of Tabriz, has over 35,000K, albeit no information about the Assyrian population (according to one source, fewer than 0.6% of the 1,494,998 inhabitants (census of 1390/2012) of Tabriz are non-Azeri or Persian). That gives a maximum threshold of about 11,347 (Urmia) + 243 (Sopurghan) + 8,970 (Tabriz area) = ca. 20,560 speakers in and around Urmia."
Speaker number does not include speakers of the Iraqi Koine (based on the Urmian standard) spoken in diaspora communities.
Source
Personal communication on Urmia Northeastern Neo-Aramaic
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
< 20,560
Speaker Number Range
10000-99999