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11.5 So which town is this chapter about?

11 · If your family says it differently · a plain-language guide to Assyrian (Sureth) grammar

Mostly Alqosh, because it's the Nineveh Plains dialect with a published description — Eleanor Coghill's, from her fieldwork with Alqoshi speakers including families in Detroit. Telkepe, Batnaya, Baghdede and the rest are close enough to it that the swaps above hold; Barwar, up in the mountains, shares most of them too.

If your family is from Iran — Urmi, Salamas, or the villages around the lake — this guide is already your dialect and you can skip this chapter entirely.

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