ALAP BEET (ATWAATAAN)
ABC (Our Letters)

ALAP- ATOOR YIMANEE,
alap-Assyria is our mother. (YIMAA is used metaphorically in Assyrian as "our country")
BETH- BET-NAHRAIN ATRANEE.
beth- the land between two rivers (Mesopotamia in Greek) is our country.
KHA LEESHANA IKLENEE.
we have one language (Aramaic / Neo-Aramaic (Neo-Aramaic is synonomous with Syriac)).
AN'E NA ATWATANEE.
these are our letters.        ATWAT'E=letters, ATOOTA=letter, ZOW'E=vowels

NOTE: = ATOOR =Assyria, BAAVIL = Babylon, KELDIA = Chaldea
Together they make up BET-NAHRAIN (the land between the two rivers (Mesopotamia in Greek))



NOTE: - ASHUR - is the original name of our country (and our god before Christ)


NOTE: - ASHUREE - is the original name of our people. All of the middle east including Israel


NOTE: - refer to us by our original name. Not Assyrian.


NOTE: - If you go there and say you are Assyrian, they won't know what you're talking about.

NOTE: - Assyrian is the translation from ASHUREE.


ALAP         --------------- ALAHA [1], ATA [2].
                   --------------- God [1], flag (synonomous with BUYDUKH)[2].
BEET          --------------- BABA [3], BROONA [4], BRATA [5].
                   --------------- father [3], son [4], daughter [5].
GAMMAL   -------------- GENANA [6], GENTA [7].
                   -------------- relax / to be at ease [6] , garden [7].
DALLAT    -------------- DOONY'E [8], DAWELTA [9].
                   -------------- world [8], wealth [9].
HEH            ------------- HEEWEE [10], HEMENTA [11].
                   -------------- hope [10], belief [11].
WAW         ------------- WELYA [12], WALEETA [13].
                   -------------- wail (noun) / mournful outcry[12], province / tribe [13].
ZEIN          -------------- ZEEWANA [14], ZRROOTA [15].
                   --------------- weed [14], plant (the verb) [15].
KHET         -------------- KHOOBA [16], KHEERROOTA [17].
                    -------------- love [16], freedom[17].
TEIT            -------------- TERR'E [18], TOORRAN'E [19].
                    -------------- birds [18], mountains [19].
YOOD         -------------- YULPAANAA [20], YUTRAN'E [21].
                     -------------- student / learned one[20], one with a better future [21].
KAP             -------------- KAP MIDR'E [22], KERRMAN'E [23].
                     --------------- kap again [22], farm [23].
LAMMAD    --------------- LA'ZEL, LEESHAN'E [24].
                     --------------- won't go away, tounges / languages [24].
MEEM          -------------- MAADRAASHTA [25], MELPAN'E [26].
                      -------------- place of higher learning / university [25], teachers / tutors [26].
NOON          -------------- NERGES [27], NEESAN'E [28].
                      -------------- flower [27], spring (the season) / April (plural)[28].
SIMKAT       -------------- SEM'EH LEH SAHDEH [29].
                      -------------- ordain the martyr [29].
EI                   -------------- AYWAT'E [30], ALAN'E [31].
                       -------------- cloud [30], ? [31]
PEH                -------------- PICH'KHE [32], POWAN'E [33]
                       -------------- bud of a flower-[32], branches [33].
SAD' E             -------------- SOMEH [34], SAALYAAN'E [35].
                       -------------- fasting [34], prayers[35].
QOP               -------------- QAAROOYA [34], QENAN'E [37].
                      --------------- rooster [36], poll tax / a tax levied per person [37].
RESH           --------------- RROOMPTAA [38], RREKHAAN'E [39].
                      --------------- high [38], possessed with odor [39].
SHEEN          -------------- SHERR'E [40], SHAMAN'E [41].
                      --------------- poems [40], listeners [41].
TAW              -------------- TUSH'EETAA [42], TENYAN'E [43].
                      --------------- history[42], speakers [43].

TEMOON AWAKH AKH ZAW'E [44],
let us be like the vowels[44] .
GOO [45] ATWAATAAN [46] SHITRAANEH [47].
in[45] -our letters-[46] beautiful [47] (in our beautiful letters) (ATOOTA = letter (singular))





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PERFORMED BY: JULIANA JENDO
LYRICS BY: JOHN HOMEH
MUSIC BY: JOESEPH MALKIE
ALBUM: THE FLOWERS OF ASSYRIA

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NOTE: Numbers are direct translations. You should learn 47 words
NOTE: after memorizing this notable and significant song. The language
NOTE: should also solidify what you remember when you were
NOTE: a child. Allaha minokhoon.