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Aramaic
Bite-sized lessons and AI chat for Aramaic, a living Neo-Aramaic language spoken by Syriac communities worldwide. Based on the official Šlomo Surayt course.
Which word means this?
Guided lessons
Bite-sized lessons that unlock one by one, spaced repetition to make vocabulary stick, every answer checked against the official course, Duolingo-style.
Free-form chat
Talk to an AI trained on the Oromoyo corpus, ask it to translate, or just practice a conversation, like ChatGPT but for Aramaic. An experimental prototype: roughly one answer in three is wrong, so treat it as a tool speakers help correct, not a teacher.
Everything you need to learn Aramaic
A focused, effective app, no fluff, no paywalls.
25 topics, 64 lessons
From greetings and family to numbers and days of the week, drawn directly from the official Šlomo Surayt textbook.
Spaced repetition
The SM-2 algorithm surfaces words just before you forget them, so every minute of practice counts.
4 exercise types
Multiple choice, typing, word matching, and sentence building, so every lesson feels different.
A few words you'll learn
Syriac script (right-to-left) · Latin transliteration · English
What is Aramaic?
Aramaic (also known as Oromoyo / Turoyo) is a living Neo-Aramaic language, spoken natively in the Ṭur ʿAbdin region of southeastern Turkey and by diaspora communities across Europe, North America, and Australia.
It is written in the Serto Syriac script, one of the oldest continuously used writing systems in the world, and belongs to the same family of languages as the Aramaic of the ancient Near East.
Despite its small speaker community, Aramaic is a fully living language, spoken at home, in churches, and preserved by a rich cultural heritage. Learning it is a way to connect with that history.
Aramaic needs writers, not only learners
A model can only learn a language that someone wrote down. Oromoyo has a few hundred thousand words online, mostly century-old folk tales, which is why no assistant on earth speaks it today. The corpus this app needs does not exist yet. Speakers are the only people who can create it.
Write a sentence
You get an everyday situation (refusing an invitation, describing your village) and say it the way you actually would. Two minutes each.
Record your voice
Read your sentence aloud. For an endangered language the recording is worth more than the text: it carries pronunciation and dialect that writing cannot.
Check what others wrote
Speakers judge each other's sentences. Nothing enters the corpus until other speakers agree it is right.
You do not need to write perfectly, or to be a linguist. If you speak Ṣurayt at home, you already know more than any model does.
Running on AI isn't free
The experimental chat is powered by AI, and every message costs real money to run. Mamlo has no ads and no subscriptions. If you'd like to help keep it that way, a small donation goes a long way.
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