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Verbal Conjugations in the Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Ahvaz
Neo-Mandaic is among the rarest and most seriously endangered languages of the world. Two extant Neo-Mandaic dialects, those of the cities of Ahvaz and Khorramshahr in southwestern Iran, are spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, an indigenous gnostic religion of Lower Mesopotamia. The present article offers a synchronic and diachronic account of salient features of Ahvazi Neo-Mandaic verbal system, while weeding out problematic aspects in hetherto published grammatical sketches of the dialect and adding further observations to its grammatical profile as it is known thus far.
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Further Akkadian Substrate Words and Meanings Surfacing in Neo-Aramaic
The present article deals with twenty cases of Akkadian lexical influences on Aramaic that are not attested until the modern period, including seventeen substrate words and possible substrate words, and three highly plausible semantic loans, all in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA). One of these substrate words occurs in Neo-Mandaic as well, and another also in Western Neo-Aramaic. All these are added to a considerable number of cases already discussed in the scholarly literature. As the vast majority of Akkadian lexical influences that surface in Neo-Aramaic are confined to NENA, it seems that the main reasons for the lack of their attestation in pre-modern Aramaic is the strictly vernacular nature of the remote progenitor of NENA, and the fact that the history of this dialect group is not attested.
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The “Creed of the Karaite Faith ” in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic of Urmia: A Neo-Karaite Group in Iranian Azerbaijan Prior to the First World War
The article presents a text containing a printed Karaite Creed in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Urmia (Orumiyeh) in Iranian Azerbaijan.
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Comparative Lexical Studies in Neo-Mandaic
The lexicon of Neo-Mandaic is the least known aspect of this language. Amongst the present lexicological and etymological studies are the contribution of the language's lexis to our knowledge of literary Mandaic as well as aspects of this lexis within the framework of Neo-Aramaic as a whole.
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A Conversational Text in the Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Ahvaz
Neo-Mandaic is among the rarest and most seriously endangered languages of the world. Two extant Neo-Mandaic dialects, those of the cities of Ahvaz and Khorramshahr in southwestern Iran, are spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, an indigenous gnostic religion of Lower Mesopotamia. Previous transcribed texts in the dialect of Ahvaz mostly deal with Mandaean culture and include Classical Mandaic vocables that are not used in the vernacular. The present annotated text is entirely colloquial, being a sample of daily speech amongst speakers of the dialect and reflecting a typical conversation between two Neo-Mandaic speakers in a situation where one is receiving his relative as a guest. It is, moreover, the first Neo-Mandaic text that involves a female informant.
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Two texts in Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic
In this article I offer two versions of the Kurdistani folk-tale ‘Khajo and Syabando’ in Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic, one of the rarest and most highly endangered modern Aramaic languages, spoken in Israel by no more than twenty elderly Jews from the regions of Barzan and ʕAqra in Iraqi Kurdistan. Three dialects of this language were discovered during the years 1996–2000: Barzan, Shahe and B[ecy ]jil. The latter dialect is already extinct. The narratives that served for the texts were furnished by two speakers of the Barzan dialect. The texts are accompanied by observations related to etymology, comparative dialectology, vocabulary and various aspects of grammar.
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Features of the Verbal System in the Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Koy Sanjaq and Their Areal Parallels
Koy Sanjaq, an Iraqi Kurdish town located fifty-five kilometers southeast of Arbil, once had two small minority communities of Neo-Aramaic speakers, one Jewish and one Christian, each speaking its own variety of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic. In 1951, the Jews of Koy Sanjaq all left for Israel, and since then only the town's Christian Neo-Aramaic variety has lingered on in loco, now spoken by approximately 140 adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Mutzafi discusses the verbal system in the Christian Neo-Aramaic dialect of Koy Sanjaq.
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Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
The present article seeks to describe a major group of Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects located across the Great Zab river in the eastern and south-eastern parts of the dialectological map of NENA, hence the term \"Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic\" (\"Trans-Zab\", for short) chosen for this dialect group. A large set of phonological, morphophonological, morphological and lexical innovations, shared by all members of this group, is presented. Each of the Trans-Zab features is compared with contrastive parallel features in other, selected NENA varieties. Finally, an internal classification of Trans-Zab into three subdivisions is proposed, based on a comparison of three respective paradigms of the positive present copula.
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Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic and its Dialects
Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic is described as a variety of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic, with the largest concentration of speakers in the village of Barzan in northeastern Iraqi Kurdistan. The most salient peculiarities of Barzani Neo-Aramaic are listed. The several villages in which the dialect survives as the speech of a small number of families are identified. It is acknowledged, however, that Barzani today is one of the rarest Neo-Aramaic varieties & threatened with imminent extinction. A detailed description of Barzani Neo-Aramaic phonology & morphology is presented. 17 References. Z. Dubiel
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