The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Amadya /
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| Author / Creator: | Greenblatt, Jared R., 1980- |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 364 pages) |
| Language: | English Aramaic |
| Series: | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 61 Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 61. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256526 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 364 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-366). |
| ISBN: | 9789004192300 9004192301 1283119501 9781283119504 9789004182578 9004182578 9786613119506 6613119504 |