The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sulemaniyya and Ḥalabja

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13869-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 622 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1270 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the spoken Aramaic dialect of the Jewish communities in the towns of Sulemaniyya and Halabja 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 Halabja in the 1950s and the dialect is now on the verge of extinction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khan, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Khan, Ph.D. (1984) in Semitic Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is Professor of Semitic Philology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on medieval Semitic philology and Neo-Aramaic dialectology.