Assyrians in the United States
Assyrian-Americans have a long history in Chicago; they are seen here in a protest march carrying American and Assyrian flags
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| Total population | |
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| 82,355 (2000 census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Arizona · California · Illinois · Michigan · New England · New York | |
| Languages | |
| American English, Neo-Aramaic: 77,547 | |
| Religion | |
| Mainly Christianity (majority: Syriac Christianity; minority: Protestantism) |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
| British Assyrians, Assyrian Australians, Assyrian Canadians |
Assyrian Americans or Chaldean Americans refers to people born in or residing in the United States of full or partial Assyrian origin.
The Assyrians are the indigenous pre-Arab, pre-Kurdish, pre-Persian, and pre-Turkic people of northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, and northeastern Syria, who speak dialects of Eastern Aramaic and are predominately Christian, with most following the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Pentecostal Church, Assyrian Evangelical Church, Syriac Catholic Church, although some are irreligious. The Assyrians mostly migrated from northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwest Iran and northeast Syria, an area encompassing the Assyrian homeland.
The 2000 U.S. census counted 82,355 Assyrians in the country, of whom 42% (34,484) lived in Michigan. However, Assyrian American organizations claim that their population in 2010 is around 400,000. The largest Assyrian/Chaldean diaspora is located in Metropolitan Detroit, with a figure of 100,000 as of 2007. High concentrations are also located in Chicago, Phoenix, San Jose, Modesto, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Turlock, among others.
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