Help Keep Syriac Alive for the Next Generation

For thousands of years, Syriac and its modern spoken varieties have carried the stories, traditions, faith, music, and identity of our communities. Today, Surit and Surayt are endangered, and many children growing up in the diaspora have fewer opportunities to hear, speak, read, and enjoy their language in everyday life.

We believe preserving a language means more than documenting it. It must remain useful, accessible, and alive for the next generation.

Bringing Syriac Into the Digital Age

Since 2017, BET KANU has been creating the modern resources our language needs to thrive: animated songs and stories, educational videos, mobile apps, games, books, digital publications, and other learning tools in both Surit and Surayt.

Our goal is simple: give today's generation the opportunity to experience Syriac through the same kinds of engaging media and technology they use every day.

From a child singing along with an animated Syriac song, to a student learning new vocabulary through an app, to a family using BET KANU Reader to hear native-speaker audio while reading a publication, every resource helps create another opportunity for the language to be heard, learned, and passed on.

Your Monthly Support Makes This Possible

BET KANU's work is continuous. New songs need to be recorded. New animations need to be created. Books need to be illustrated. Apps need to be developed and maintained. And talented writers, musicians, animators, designers, and developers make all of this possible.

Monthly support gives us something especially valuable: the ability to plan ahead and keep creating.

Whether you contribute $10, $25, $50, $100, or any amount each month, you become part of a community committed to giving Syriac a future.

From the Homeland to the Diaspora

Through our creative teams and production centers in Syria and Iraq, together with volunteers and supporters throughout the diaspora, BET KANU combines local talent with modern technology to create resources that can reach Syriac-speaking families around the world.

Our work is made freely accessible whenever possible so that geography or financial circumstances do not have to stand between a learner and their language.

Be Part of the Next Chapter

A language survives when people continue to speak it, teach it, create in it, and pass it on.

Your monthly contribution helps us continue doing exactly that.

Join BET KANU as a monthly supporter and help keep Syriac alive for generations to come.

Become a BET KANU Monthly Supporter

Help keep Syriac alive for the next generation.