Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho explained

Lishana Deni
Nativename:	לשנא דני|rtl=yes
Pronunciation:	in Semitic languages pronounced as /liˈʃɑnɑ ˈdɛni/
States:	Iraq
Region:	Zakho, Iraq
Familycolor:	Afro-Asiatic
Fam2:	Semitic
Fam3:	Central Semitic
Fam4:	Northwest Semitic
Fam5:	Aramaic
Fam6:	Eastern Aramaic
Fam7:	Northeastern
Fam8:	Neo-Aramaic
Iso3:	lsd
Glotto:	lish1247
Glottorefname:	Lishana Deni

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho^{[1] [2] [3]} is a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic originally spoken by Jews in Zakho, Iraq. Following the exodus of Jews from the Muslim lands, most speakers now live in Israel, principally Jerusalem and surrounding villages.

Grammar

It is unknown exactly how person markers are established as either pronominal affixes, or agreement markers. There are two explanations. The first relies on synchronic change, using evidence from Classical Syriac. This analysis reveals that the same person marker may simply behave differently in different syntactic environments. The second explanation suggests that there is no clear-cut dichotomy between pronominal affixes and agreement markers at all, citing transitional cases as an example.^[4]

See also

• Aramaic alphabet
• Betanure Jewish Neo-Aramaic
• Jewish languages

Further reading

• Avenery, Iddo, The Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of Zakho. The Israel academy of Science and Humanities 1988.
• Heinrichs, Wolfhart (ed.) (1990). Studies in Neo-Aramaic. Scholars Press: Atlanta, Georgia. .
• Maclean, Arthur John (1895). Grammar of the dialects of vernacular Syriac: as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, north-west Persia, and the Plain of Mosul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul. Cambridge University Press, London.
• The impact of Israeli Hebrew on the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Kurdish Jews of Zakho: a case of language shift. Hebrew Union College Annual. 46 . Sabar . Yona . Yona Sabar . 1975 . 489–508.
• Book: Sabar, Yona . Yona Sabar

. A Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dictionary . Yona Sabar . 2002 . Harrassowitz . 978-3-447-04557-5 . registration .

External links

• Lives of Kurdish Jewish women
• Personal indices in the verbal system of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho
• The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho

Notes and References

1. Neuman . Yishai . Categorical Shifts of the Idiom Ribono shel(a)olam: From a Tannaitic Vocative to a Jewish Theocentric Interjection to a Substrate Component in Israeli Hebrew Discourse . Journal of Jewish Languages . 2019 . 7 . 2 . 190–226 . 10.1163/22134638-06011139a.
2. Nissan . Ephraim . Names for the fishes of the river Tigris in Baghdadi Judaeo-Arabic and in Zakho Jewish Neo-Aramaic . La Linguistique . 2019 . 55 . 1 . 97–128 . 10.3917/ling.551.0097 . 197844219 .
3. Nissan . E. . REVIEWS . Journal of Semitic Studies . 1 January 1999 . XLIV . 2 . 320–322 . 10.1093/jss/XLIV.2.320.
4. Gutman. Ariel. 2019. Personal indices in the verbal system of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho. The Mental Lexicon.