#surit

I now have Asturian and Surit keyboards on my phone. The former is a minority language from northern Spain, that apparently was the official language of the one Christian kingdom that wasn't conquered by the Muslims - Asturias. I wanted to write an extended thank you to Asturian speakers at some point for using the letter ḥ in their writing, which is why I downloaded this keyboard in the first place. Because I'm a perfectionist, though, I wanted to get into the history of the language and it turns out perfectionism is the enemy of creation. Who knew. Anyway, thank you, Asturian speakers! ¡Gracies!

With that out of the way, I can get to Surit - a modern variation (or two, or more) of Aramaic.

Now look. I don't speak any modern version of Aramaic. However, they use an Alphabet that's slightly closer to the Hebrew one than to the Arabic one, so it actually wasn't too hard to learn to read it - outside of the occasional conflation of ܣ (s) and ܗ (h), or Ḥet, two Nuns or two Yuds. That's what happens when you use a cursive that connects all letters in a word.

Anyway, I can now read Surit. Which, to be fair, doesn't necessarily help much if I don't know the words, right? The fact I don't really know the vowel system (didn't bother with it really) does not help, nor does the fact I can really understand only one particular script which Google and Wikipedia use. However, when ignoring the pronunciation, Modern Aramaic isn't that different from the Talmudic Aramaic, and I can guess at words I don't know through context. Armed with that, I entered Wikipedia in Surit.

From what I've seen so far, it's not very rich in knowledge. But let's be honest here, it's in a language that has no state of its own. Native speakers of it exist around the Middle East as minorities in Arab countries (and in Israel, and possibly in Turkey and Iran as well I suppose), or around Australia and Germany, apparently? But there is no state where Surit has an official status. So it's not a surprise that their articles are short.

a friend and i went through our old music from a few years ago and we stumbled upon something.

"drown" by bring me the horizon is about tennal and surit. i can't scream enough about how much i need you to listen to this song. not only is it a masterpiece but it's so painfully accurately about tennal and surit, i couldn't believe it. see for yourselves

[Verse 1]

What doesn't kill you makes you wish you were dead

Got a hole in my soul growing deeper and deeper, and I can't take

One more moment of this silence, the loneliness is haunting me

And the weight of the world's getting harder to hold up

[Pre-Chorus]

It comes in waves, I close my eyes

Hold my breath and let it bury me

I'm not okay and it's not alright

Won't you drag the lake and bring me home again?

[Chorus]

Who will fix me now? Dive in when I'm down?

Save me from myself, don't let me drown

Who will make me fight? Drag me out alive?

Save me from myself, don't let me drown

[Verse 2]

What doesn't destroy you, leaves you broken instead

Got a hole in my soul growing deeper and deeper, and I can't take

One more moment of this silence, the loneliness is haunting me

And the weight of the world's getting harder to hold up

[Pre-Chorus]

It comes in waves, I close my eyes

Hold my breath and let it bury me

I'm not okay and it's not alright

Won't you drag the lake and bring me home again?

[Chorus]

Who will fix me now? Dive in when I'm down?

Save me from myself, don't let me drown

Who will make me fight? Drag me out alive?

Save me from myself, don't let me drown

[Bridge]

'Cause you know that I can't do this on my own

'Cause you know that I can't do this on my own

'Cause you know that I can't do this on my own

('Cause you know that I can't do this on my)

[Outro]

Who will fix me now?

Who will fix me now?

Who will fix me now? Dive in when I'm down?

Save me from myself, don't let me drown

// what a rollercoaster. nobody can convince me otherwise

New Haven Records finally out with tracks by New Frames, Keepsakes, Ayarcana & Surit

https://www.deejay.de/Various_Artists_Sardonic_Tonality_Vol_3_HVNWHT005_Vinyl__968216