Assyrian
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Assyrian may refer to:
- Anything from Assyria, an ancient empire in Mesopotamia
- Anything from Assyria (Roman province), a province of the Roman Empire
- Assyrian people, a present-day Middle Eastern ethnic group
- Several Christian denominations:
- * Assyrian Church of the East
- * Assyrian Church of the East's Holy Synod
- * Assyrian Evangelical Church
- * Assyrian Pentecostal Church
- A number of languages:
- *Ancient Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language
- *Present-day Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
- A number of writing systems:
- *Hebrew alphabet
- *Syriac alphabet
- *Cuneiform script
- *Aramaic alphabet
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