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Mlaḥsô (Syriac: ܡܠܚܬܝܐ) is a Modern West Syriac language a dialect of Aramaic. It was traditionally spoken in eastern Turkey and north-eastern Syria by members of the Assyrian/Syriac people.The Ṣurayt of Mlaḥsô is closely related to the Ṣurayt of Turabdin. It was spoken in the villages of Mlaḥsô and ˁAnsha near Lice Diyarbakır Turkey. The name of the village and the language comes from the Syriac word melḥo ‘salt’. The literary Syriac name for the language is Mlaḥthoyo.

ISO 639-3 code
lhs
family
Aramaic language, Semitic languages, Central Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic languages
spoken in
Qamishli, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey, Syria

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