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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amədya

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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 Amәdya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Ir...
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  • 07 December 2010
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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 Amәdya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. No native speakers of this dialect remain in situ. They, along with the other Jewish communities of the Kurdish region, had all left by 1951. The majority went to Israel, where their numbers have dwindled. The dialect has not been passed on to the next generation, whose native tongue is Modern Israeli Hebrew. There remain but a handful of competent native speakers, whose speech has often been corrupted to varying degrees by exposure to Hebrew and other closely-related Neo-Aramaic dialects.
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Price: $343.00
Pages: 370
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
Publication Date: 07 December 2010
ISBN: 9789004182578
Format: Hardcover
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Jared R. Greenblatt, Ph.D. (2008) in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies, University of Cambridge, currently holds a research post at Tel Aviv University and is working on a comprehensive lexicon of the inherited Aramaic component of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic languages.