Mlahsö
An extinct language of Syria
| Population | Extinct. |
| Region | Qamishli town. Originally in Mlahsó and ’Ansha villages, Diyarbakir Province, Turkey. |
| Alternate names | Suryoyo |
| Dialects | Similar to Turoyo [tru]. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, Aramaic, Eastern, Central, Northwestern |
| Language use | The last speaker died in 1998. His daughter knows Mlahsö well, but is nearly deaf and has no one to speak it to (1999). Mlahsö was still spoken by a handful of people during the 1970s. |
| Comments | ‘Suryoyo’ is their own name. A different language from Turoyo [tru], also called ‘Suryoyo’. Christian (Jacobite). |
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