Which is the main language spoken by the Suriani, a minority religious group in the Turkey-Syria-Iraq area?
Sectarianism and minorities in the Syrian Civil War to the Greek liturgy, and the Greek Orthodox denomination in Syria. Arabic is now its main liturgical language. The Assyrian people, mainly located in the Northeast of Syria (with the bulk of their population in neighbouring northern Iraq, and others in south east Turkey and north west Iran), are ethnically and linguistically distinct from the main group of Syrian Christians, in that unlike the latter, who are of Aramean heritage but largely now Arabic speaking, Assyrians are of ancient Assyrian/Mesopotamian heritage, retain Eastern Aramaic as a spoken tongue, and are often members of the Assyrian Church of the East or
Christianity in Iraq as the Nineveh Plains in the north. Iraqi Christians live primarily in Northern Iraq; and in regions bordering it in northeastern Syria, northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, an area roughly corresponding to the Assyrian homeland. Their ancient homelands pre-dating the colonization of Iraq traces to ancient Assyria and Babylonia which consisted of northern Iraq all the way to southern Iraq. It also consisted of parts of Iran, Syria and Turkey. One of the main reasons why this highly endangered native group is facing a possible extinction is because of their predominate Christian faith. They fall prey to religious extremists as