The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Koy Sanjaq (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Author: Hezy Mutzafi
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783447049153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised thesis (doctoral), - Tel Aviv University, 2000.
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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Betanure (province of Dihok)
Author: Hezy Mutzafi
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9783447057103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Betanure, which has hitherto remained unattested, is among the rarest and most seriously endangered varieties of Aramaic spoken at the present time. One of the most archaizing Jewish Neo-Aramaic varieties and a member of the Lishana Deni dialect cluster of northernmost Iraq, the dialect is currently spoken in Israel by no more than three dozen elderly people, of whom only a small minority are pro'cient speakers. The grammatical description of the dialect is synchronic, but it includes etymological and historical comments as well as several paragraphs dealing with diachronic processes. The large and variegated corpus of texts, based on narratives furnished by the last two superb speakers of the dialect, comprises, inter alia, descriptions of the village of Betanure and its history, the fauna and ?ora of the region, agriculture and other occupations of the Jewish villagers, customs and traditions, legends, folktales, anecdotes and amusing stories. The glossary is extensively etymological and offers much comparative data drawn from numerous Neo-Aramaic varieties, apart from recourse to Classical Aramaic lexical data.
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja
Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-03
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 904741358X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the spoken Aramaic dialect of the Jewish communities in the towns of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja in North Eastern Iraq. It also includes a transcription of oral texts recorded in the dialect. The grammar is based on extensive fieldwork carried out among native speakers. It consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax. There is also a study of semantic fields in the lexicon of the dialect and full glossaries of lexical items. This Aramaic dialect, which belongs to the North Eastern Neo-Aramaic group, has never been described before. The Jewish communities left Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja in the 1950s and the dialect is now on the verge of extinction.
Studies in Neo-Aramaic
Author: Wolfhart Heinrichs
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9004369538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Grammar of Neo-Aramaic
Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-02
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9004305041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction. This volume, the result of extensive fieldwork, contains a description of the dialect spoken by the Jews from the region of Arbel (Iraqi Kurdistan), together with a transcription of recorded texts and a glossary. The grammar consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax, preceded by an introductory chapter examining the position of this dialect in relation to the other known Neo-Aramaic dialects. The transcribed texts record folktales and accounts of customs, traditions and experiences of the Jews of Kurdistan.
The Syntax and Semantics of Verb Morphology in Modern Aramaic
Author: Robert D. Hoberman
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amədya
Author: Jared Greenblatt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-12-07
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9004192301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Amәdya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. No native speakers of this dialect remain in situ. They, along with the other Jewish communities of the Kurdish region, had all left by 1951. The majority went to Israel, where their numbers have dwindled. The dialect has not been passed on to the next generation, whose native tongue is Modern Israeli Hebrew. There remain but a handful of competent native speakers, whose speech has often been corrupted to varying degrees by exposure to Hebrew and other closely-related Neo-Aramaic dialects.
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa
Author: Steven Ellis Fassberg
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9004176829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAramaic has been spoken uninterruptedly for more than 3000 years, yet a generation from now most Aramaic dialects will be extinct. The study of the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects has increased dramatically in the past decade as linguists seek to record these dialects before the disappearance of their last speakers. This work is a unique documentation of the now extinct Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Challa (modern-day Çukurca, Turkey). It is based on recordings of the last native speaker of the dialect, who passed away in 2007. In addition to a grammatical description, it contains sample texts and a glossary of the dialect. Jewish Challa belongs to the cluster of NENA dialects known as 'lishana deni' and reference is made throughout to other dialects within this group.
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of Dohok
Author: Dorota Molin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-04-25
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9004690573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book combines in-depth grammatical analysis with dialectology and typology. It presents important features of Jewish Neo-Aramaic from Dohok (Iraqi Kurdistan), a previously undocumented dialect that is now on the verge of extinction. The first Neo-Aramaic grammar to offer data glossing, this book is accessible for and highly relevant to Semitists, language typologists and historical linguists. It focuses especially on phonology, verbal morphosyntax and syntax. The monograph also highlights features that characterise the wider lišana deni dialect group, which is the most widespread Jewish Neo-Aramaic today. The book leverages the staggering microvariation persisting within North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic to reconstruct the grammaticalisation of some key Neo-Aramaic constructions. It also includes a text sample of prime historiographic value (Jews of Iraq during the Second World War).
Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic
Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2021-01-15
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1783749504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit a remarkable diversity of structures. Moreover, the considerable depth of attestation of Aramaic from earlier periods provides evidence for pathways of change. For these reasons the research of Neo-Aramaic is of importance for more general fields of linguistics, in particular language typology and historical linguistics. The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects. They advance the field in numerous ways. In order to allow linguists who are not specialists in Neo-Aramaic to benefit from the papers, the examples are fully glossed.
