The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar PDF Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900416765X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2237

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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 Barwar

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar PDF Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900416765X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2237

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Book Description
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 Qaraqosh

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Qaraqosh PDF Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004348581
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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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.

Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic PDF Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783749504
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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The 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.

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

A Grammar of the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana-Zariwaw PDF Author: Lidia Napiorkowska
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004290338
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 613

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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.

Neo-Aramaic Dialect Studies

Neo-Aramaic Dialect Studies PDF Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc
ISBN: 9781593334239
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
Contains a collection of papers on various aspects of the grammar of Neo-Aramaic, with special attention to the North Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect group. This title features papers that include descriptions of many hitherto undescribed dialects, including those of Tyare, Sat, Calla, Barwar, Karamlesh, Telkepe, Peshabur and those of the Aqra region.

A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic

A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic PDF Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004305041
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi (4 vols) PDF Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004313931
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1921

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Book Description
This work is a documentation of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian Christians in the region of Urmi (northwestern-Iran). It consists of four volumes: Volume 1 and 2—grammar, Volume 3—study of the lexicon and full dictionary, Volume 4—transcriptions of oral texts.

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of Dohok

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of Dohok PDF Author: Dorota Molin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004690573
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Book Description
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 Challa

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa PDF Author: Steven Ellis Fassberg
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004176829
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Aramaic 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 Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja PDF Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904741358X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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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.