Syriac people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 3.3 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Traditional areas of Assyrian settlement: | 735,000–745,100 |
 Syria
|
400,000 |
 Iraq
|
300,000 |
 Iran
|
20,000 |
 Turkey
|
15,000–25,100 |
| Diaspora: | 496,467–970,605 |
 United States |
110,807–400,000 |
 Jordan
|
100,000–150,000 |
 Sweden
|
100,000 |
 Germany |
100,000 |
 Lebanon
|
39,000 |
 Australia
|
30,631 |
 Netherlands
|
20,000 |
 France
|
16,000 |
 Belgium
|
15,000 |
 Russia
|
10,911 |
 Canada
|
10,810 |
 Denmark
|
10,000 |
 Switzerland
|
10,000 |
 United Kingdom |
6,390 |
 Greece
|
6,000 |
 Georgia
|
3,299 |
 Ukraine
|
3,143 |
 Italy
|
3,000 |
 Armenia
|
2,769 |
 New Zealand
|
1,683 |
 Azerbaijan
|
1,500 |
 Israel
|
1,000 |
 Kazakhstan
|
350–800 |
 Finland
|
300 |
| Languages | |
|
Neo-Aramaic (Assyrian, Chaldean, Turoyo) |
|
| Religion | |
| Mainly Christianity (majority: Syriac Christianity; minority: Protestantism) |
|
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Armenians • Mandeans • Mizrahi Jews • Maronites | |
Assyrian people (Syriac: ܐܫܘܪܝܐ), or Syriacs (see names of Syriac Christians), are an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East. Some of them self-identify as Chaldeans, or as Arameans. They speak modern Aramaic, whose subdivisions include Northeastern, Central, and Western Neo-Aramaic, as well as another language, dependent on the country of residence. The Assyrians are Syriac-speaking Christians who claim descent from Assyria, one of the oldest civilizations in the world, dating back to 2500 BC in ancient Mesopotamia.
The areas that form the Assyrian homeland are parts of present-day northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and northeastern Syria. The majority have migrated to other regions of the world, including North America, the Levant, Australia, Europe, Russia and the Caucasus during the past century or so.Emigration was triggered by such events as the Assyrian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, the Simele Massacre in Iraq in 1933, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Arab Nationalist Ba'athist policies in Iraq and Syria such as the al-Anfal campaign of Saddam Hussein, and the rise of ISIS and its takeover of most of the Nineveh Plains.
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