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==Influences== |
==Influences== |
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The NENA languages contain a large number of loanwords and some grammatical features from the extinct [[East Semitic]] [[Akkadian language]] of [[Mesopotamia]] |
The NENA languages contain a large number of loanwords and some grammatical features from the extinct [[East Semitic]] [[Akkadian language]] of [[Mesopotamia]] and also in more modern times from their surrounding languages: [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]] and [[Turkish language]]. These languages are spoken by both Jews and Christian Arameans from the area. Each variety of NENA is clearly Jewish or Aramean. |
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However, not all varieties of one or other religious groups are intelligible with all others of the group. Likewise, in some places Jews and |
However, not all varieties of one or other religious groups are intelligible with all others of the group. Likewise, in some places Jews and Aramean Christians from the same locale speak mutually unintelligible varieties of Aramaic, where in other places their language is quite similar. The differences can be explained by the fact that NENA communities gradually became isolated into small groups spread over a wide area, and some had to be highly mobile due to various ethnic and religious persecutions. |
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The influence of classical Aramaic varieties – [[Syriac language|Syriac]] on Christian varieties and [[Targum]]ic on Jewish communities – gives a dual heritage that further distinguishes language by faith. Many of the Jewish speakers of NENA varieties, the [[Kurdish Jews]], now live in [[Israel]], where Neo-Aramaic is [[endangered language|endangered]] by the dominance of [[Hebrew language|Modern Hebrew]]. Many Christian NENA speakers, who usually are [[ |
The influence of classical Aramaic varieties – [[Syriac language|Syriac]] on Christian varieties and [[Targum]]ic on Jewish communities – gives a dual heritage that further distinguishes language by faith. Many of the Jewish speakers of NENA varieties, the [[Kurdish Jews]], now live in [[Israel]], where Neo-Aramaic is [[endangered language|endangered]] by the dominance of [[Hebrew language|Modern Hebrew]]. Many Christian NENA speakers, who usually are [[Arameans|Aramean]], are in [[diaspora]] in [[North America]], [[Europe]], [[Australia]], the [[Caucasus]] and elsewhere, although indigenous communities remain in northern [[Iraq]], south east [[Turkey]], north east [[Syria]] and north west [[Iran]], an area roughly comprising what had been ancient [[Aram (region)]].<ref>[[Wolfhart Heinrichs|Heinrichs, Wolfhart]] (ed.) (1990). ''Studies in Neo-Aramaic''. Scholars Press: Atlanta, Georgia. {{ISBN|1-55540-430-8}}.</ref> |
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==Grouping== |
==Grouping== |
Revision as of 18:52, 14 July 2023
Northeastern Neo-Aramaic | |
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NENA | |
Geographic distribution | Traditionally spoken northeast to the plain of Urmia in Iran, southeast to the plain of Mosul in Iraq, southwest to Al-Hasakah Governorate in Syria and as northwest as Tur Abdin in Turkey. Diaspora speakers in North America, Europe and Israel (the Jewish dialects). |
Linguistic classification | Afro-Asiatic
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | nort3241 |
Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) is a grouping of related dialects of Neo-Aramaic spoken before World War I as a vernacular language by Jews and Christians between the Tigris and Lake Urmia, stretching north to Lake Van and southwards to Mosul and Kirkuk. As a result of the Sayfo (Assyrian genocide) Christian speakers were forced out of the area that is now Turkey and in the early 1950s most Jewish speakers moved to Israel. The Kurdish-Turkish conflict resulted in further dislocations of speaker populations.[1][2] As of the 1990s, the NENA group had an estimated number of fluent speakers among the Aramean just below 500,000, spread throughout the Middle East and the Assyrian diaspora. In 2007, linguist Geoffrey Khan wrote that many dialects were nearing extinction with fluent speakers difficult to find.[1]
The other branches of Neo-Aramaic are Western Neo-Aramaic, Central Neo-Aramaic (Turoyo and Mlahso), and Mandaic.[1] Some linguists classify NENA as well as Turoyo and Mlahso as a single dialect continuum.[3]
Influences
The NENA languages contain a large number of loanwords and some grammatical features from the extinct East Semitic Akkadian language of Mesopotamia and also in more modern times from their surrounding languages: Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Azerbaijani and Turkish language. These languages are spoken by both Jews and Christian Arameans from the area. Each variety of NENA is clearly Jewish or Aramean.
However, not all varieties of one or other religious groups are intelligible with all others of the group. Likewise, in some places Jews and Aramean Christians from the same locale speak mutually unintelligible varieties of Aramaic, where in other places their language is quite similar. The differences can be explained by the fact that NENA communities gradually became isolated into small groups spread over a wide area, and some had to be highly mobile due to various ethnic and religious persecutions.
The influence of classical Aramaic varieties – Syriac on Christian varieties and Targumic on Jewish communities – gives a dual heritage that further distinguishes language by faith. Many of the Jewish speakers of NENA varieties, the Kurdish Jews, now live in Israel, where Neo-Aramaic is endangered by the dominance of Modern Hebrew. Many Christian NENA speakers, who usually are Aramean, are in diaspora in North America, Europe, Australia, the Caucasus and elsewhere, although indigenous communities remain in northern Iraq, south east Turkey, north east Syria and north west Iran, an area roughly comprising what had been ancient Aram (region).[4]
Grouping
SIL Ethnologue assigns ISO codes to twelve NENA varieties, two of them extinct:
- Neo-Syriac [syr] (Sooreth, Suret, Soorath, Soorith, Suras, Sureth), historically derived from the dialect of the Lake Urmia region, now mostly spoken in Iranian Azerbaijan and northern Iraq.
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic [aii], 235,000 speakers (1994)[5]
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic [cld], 216,000 speakers (1994)
- Judeo-Aramaic varieties, spoken by Jewish communities in Israel
- Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic [bjf] (Israel), extinct
- Hulaulá or Judeo-Aramaic [huy], 10,000 speakers (1990s)
- Jewish Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (Iraq, Iran, Turkey)
- Lishana Deni [lsd] 7,500 speakers (1990s)
- Lishán Didán [trg], 4,500 speakers (2000)
- Lishanid Noshan [aij], 2,200 speakers (1990s)
- Bohtan Neo-Aramaic [bhn] (Georgia), 1,000 speakers (1990s)
- Hértevin [hrt] (Turkey), 1,000 speakers (1990s)
- Koy Sanjaq Surat [kqd] (Iraq), 900 speakers (1990s)
- Senaya [syn] (Iran), 460 speakers (1990s)
References
- ^ a b c Khan, G. (1 January 2007). "The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Journal of Semitic Studies. 52 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1093/jss/fgl034.
- ^ Bird, Isabella, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, including a summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian rayahs, London: J. Murray, 1891, vol. ii, pp. 282 and 306
- ^ Kim, Ronald (2008). ""Stammbaum" or Continuum? The Subgrouping of Modern Aramaic Dialects Reconsidered". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 128 (3): 505–531. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 25608409.
- ^ Heinrichs, Wolfhart (ed.) (1990). Studies in Neo-Aramaic. Scholars Press: Atlanta, Georgia. ISBN 1-55540-430-8.
- ^ "Redirected". 19 November 2019.
Sources
- Coghill, Eleanor. "SOME NOTABLE FEATURES IN NORTH-EASTERN NEO-ARAMAIC DIALECTS OF IRAQ". Neo-Aramaic Dialect Studies. Gorgias Press. pp. 91–104. ISBN 978-1-4632-1161-5.
- Fox, Samuel Ethan (1994). "The Relationships of the Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 114 (2): 154–162. doi:10.2307/605827. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 605827.
- Fox, Samuel Ethan (2008). "NORTH-EASTERN NEO-ARAMAIC AND THE MIDDLE ARAMAIC DIALECTS". Neo-Aramaic Dialect Studies. Gorgias Press. pp. 1–18. ISBN 978-1-4632-1161-5.
- Gutman, Ariel (2018). Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic. Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-081-1.
- Khan, Geoffrey (2007). "Grammatical borrowing in North-eastern Neo-Aramaic". Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]. Mouton de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110199192.197. ISBN 978-3-11-019919-2.
- Khan, Geoffrey (2012). "North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic". The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 708–724. ISBN 978-3-11-025158-6.
- Khan, Geoffrey; Napiorkowska, Lidia, eds. (2015). Neo-Aramaic in Its Linguistic Context. Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-4632-0410-5.
- Khan, Geoffrey (2018). "Remarks on the Historical Development and Syntax of the Copula in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Aramaic Studies. 16 (2): 234–269. doi:10.1163/17455227-01602010. S2CID 195503300.
- Khan, Geoffrey (2020). "The Perfect in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic". Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-6090-1.
- Khan, Geoffrey; Noorlander, Paul, eds. (2021). Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic. Semitic Languages and Cultures. Vol. 5. Open Book Publishers. doi:10.11647/OBP.0209. ISBN 978-1-78374-952-2. S2CID 231785174.
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- Mutzafi, Hezy (2005). "Etymological Notes on North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic". Aramaic Studies. 3 (1): 83–107. doi:10.1177/1477835105053516.
- Mutzafi, Hezy (2006). "On the Etymology of Some Enigmatic Words in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic". Aramaic Studies. 4 (1): 83–99. doi:10.1177/1477835106066037.
- Mutzafi, Hezy (2018). "Folk Etymology in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Aramaic Studies. 16 (2): 215–233. doi:10.1163/17455227-01602007. S2CID 195509710.