Sanandaj Neo-Aramaic | |
Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
Fam2: | Semitic |
Fam3: | Central Semitic |
Fam4: | Northwest Semitic |
Fam5: | Aramaic |
Fam6: | Eastern Aramaic |
Fam7: | Northeastern |
Sanandaj Jewish Neo-Aramaic is a variety of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic originally spoken by Jews in the city of Sanandaj, Iran. It is much more closely related to other Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects than the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Christians in the same town.
Stops / affricates | Unvoiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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Voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Emphatic | (ṭ) | ||||||||
Fricatives | Unvoiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
Emphatic | (ṣ), (ż) | ||||||||
Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
Lateral | pronounced as /link/ (pronounced as /link/) | ||||||||
Rhotic | pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/, (pronounced as /link/) | ||||||||
Approximant | pronounced as /link/ |