Preserving Aramaic: Language Education for the Next Generation

Building on our efforts to preserve the Aramaic language through Bible distribution, BNOW has taken a proactive step to ensure that future generations can read and write in their ancestral tongue. In the Nineveh Plains, we launched a language training course for 30 children, providing them with Aramaic learning books and essential educational supplies.

Teaching Aramaic to children is vital to safeguarding the linguistic and cultural heritage of Iraq’s Christian communities. Ongoing displacement and cultural erosion have left fewer young people with the opportunity to learn their native language, placing its survival at risk. By equipping children with literacy skills in Aramaic, we are strengthening their connection to their identity, faith, and history.

This initiative not only preserves a foundational element of Christian heritage but also empowers a new generation to carry their language forward—ensuring that Aramaic remains a living, spoken, and written tradition within their communities.