The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: QMQ
ISO 639-2: sem
| Region | Qamishli town. Originally in Mlahsó and <Ansha villages, Diyarbakir Province, Turkey. |
| Alternate names | SURYOYO |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, Aramaic, Eastern, Central, Northwestern. |
| Comments | Close to Turoyo. The last speaker died in 1998. His daughter knows Mlahso well, but is nearly deaf and has no one to speak it to (1999). Mlahso was still spoken by a handful of people during the 1970s. 'Suryoyo' is their own name. A different language from Turoyo, also called 'Suryoyo.' Christian (Jacobite). Extinct. |
