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Machine Translation between English and Syriac (East Syriac Dialect) using Statistical Machine Learning

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 16, 2026 · UTC

UNESCO considers the Assyrian (Syriac) language an endangered language. Although Assyrians speak the language worldwide, the speaking population is uncertain (ranging from 500,000 to 1,500,000). Syriac is also one of the least studied languages in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Despite advances in Machine Translation (MT) over the past decade, the lack of publicly available corpora and the orthographic complexity of the Syriac script, specifically the Madnkhaya script, have left this language entirely ignored in the computational linguistics literature. This study develops the first phrase

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