The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya And Ḥalabja
The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya And Ḥalabja
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Author(s): Khan, Geoffrey
ISBN No.: 9789004138698
Pages: XXII, 622
Year: 200405
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 411.24
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

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.


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