The Assyrian Language

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is a modern version of the ancient Aramaic language, which was once widely spoken across the Near East.
• It is primarily spoken by the Assyrian people, an ethnic minority originating from regions now part of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Syria.
• Assyrian uses the Syriac script, a derivative of the Aramaic alphabet, and faces challenges of diminishing fluency among younger generations.

About Glen Davis

Glen Davis is a village in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. The village is located in the local government area of the City of Lithgow. It is located 250 km north-west of Sydney and approximately 80 kilometres north of Lithgow. In the 2006 census Glen Davis had a population of 354. Glen Davis is situated in the Capertee Valley, from which the Capertee River flows. The valley forms a canyon that is the second largest canyon in the world (only the Grand Canyon is larger).

Glen Davis can be reached by driving on the Lithgow-Mudgee Road and turning off at Capertee, 50 km from Lithgow, then heading east along a partially unsealed road that goes through the Capertee Valley. From 1938, the town became the centre of an oil shale industry. The post office for the town opened on 1 March 1939.

The township was abandoned in 1952 because shale oil was not viable in a non-war, non-government supported economic environment. After the closure of the oil shale mine, the skeleton of a town survived in the form of some properties, a post office and a shop or two that survived intermittently. The creation of the Wollemi National Park brought a degree of tourism to the area.

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