The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Qaraqosh
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Qaraqosh

Author: Geoffrey Khan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 9004348581

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Containing a detailed grammatical description of the spoken Aramaic dialect of the Christian community in the town of Qaraqosh, which lies on the Mosul plain in Northern Iraq, this volume 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 has never been described before. It is one of the most archaic dialects in group known as North Eastern Neo-Aramaic that contains many features that have not been found in other dialects. These include several lexical elements that are not found in earlier literary Aramaic but can be traced back to Akkadian and Sumerian. Knowledge of the dialect is now being lost among the younger generations, so this volume is an important linguistic record.

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar

Author: Geoffrey Khan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 2237

ISBN-13: 900416765X

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This work, in three volumes, presents a detailed description the neo-Aramaic dialect of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar region in northern Iraq, which is now endangered. Volume one contains a description of the grammar of the dialect. Volume two contains an extensive glossary. Volume three contains transcriptions of recorded texts

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi (4 vols)
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi (4 vols)

Author: Geoffrey Khan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-06-10

Total Pages: 1921

ISBN-13: 9004313931

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This work is a detailed documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran). It consists of four volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 are descriptions of the grammar of the dialect, including the phonology, morphology and syntax. Volume 3 contains a study of the lexicon, consisting of a series of lists of words in various lexical fields and a full dictionary with etymologies. Volume 4 contains transcriptions and translations of oral texts, including folktales and descriptions of culture and history. The Urmi dialect is the most important dialect among the Assyrian Christian communities, since it forms the basis of a widely-used literary form of Neo-Aramaic.

A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw
A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw

Author: Lidia Napiorkowska

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 9004290338

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The detailed study of a rare Neo-Aramaic variety from north-eastern Iraq offered by Lidia Napiorkowska in A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw is a contribution to the documentation of the endangered world of spoken Aramaic. The comparative and contact-sensitive approach of the monograph situates the dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw in a wider context of Semitic languages on the one hand, and of the local varieties of Iraqi Kurdistan on the other. Next to a systematic account of phonology and morphology, the book covers a range of syntactic features and is accompanied by a corpus of translated texts and a glossary, arranged according to the Aramaic, as well as English entries.

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar

Author: Geoffrey Khan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-10-16

Total Pages: 2236

ISBN-13: 9047443497

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The Aramaic language has continued to be spoken in various dialects down to modern times. Many of these dialects, however, are now endangered due to political events in the Middle East over the last hundred years. This work, in three volumes, presents a description of one such endangered neo-Aramaic dialect, that of the Assyrian Christian community of the Barwar region in northern Iraq. It is a unique record of the dialect based on interviews with the surviving older generation of the community. Volume one contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialect, including sections on phonology, morphology and syntax. Volume two contains an extensive glossary of the lexicon of the dialect with illustrations of various aspects of the material culture. Volume three contains transcriptions of numerous recorded texts, including folktales, ethnographic texts, songs, and proverbs.

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of Dohok
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of Dohok

Author: Dorota Molin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-04-25

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9004690573

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This 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).

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Am?dya
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Am?dya

Author: Jared Greenblatt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 9004182578

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This work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Am?dya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. Included are edited transcriptions and translations of a selection of texts recorded in the dialect on a variety of topics and in a variety of genres, including folk-tales and oral history.

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Betanure (province of Dihok)
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

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The 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
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja

Author: Geoffrey Khan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 904741358X

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This 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.