Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Koy Sanjaq
Appearance
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Koy Sanjaq Jewish Neo-Aramaic is a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic in the Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic cluster. All speakers migrated to Israel in 1951 and as of 1985, the language was being acquired by children raised in Shtula, a moshav in Israel.[1]
Phonology
[edit]Labial | Dental / Alveolar | Emphatic | Palatoalveolar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||
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Stops / affricates | Unvoiced | p | t | tˤ | tʃ | k | q | ʔ | |
Voiced | b | d | dʒ | g | |||||
Fricatives | Unvoiced | f | s | sˤ | ʃ | χ | ħ | h | |
Voiced | z | zˤ | ʒ | ʁ | ʕ | ||||
Nasal | m | n | mˤ | ||||||
Lateral | l | lˤ | |||||||
Rhotic | ɾ, r | ||||||||
Approximant | w | j |
References
[edit]- ^ Hoberman 1985, p. 221.
- ^ Mutzafi 2002, p. 17.
Sources
[edit]- Mutzafi, Hezy (2002). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Koy Sanjaq (Iraqi Kurdistan). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-04915-3.
- Hoberman, Robert D. (1985). "The Phonology of Pharyngeals and Pharyngealization in Pre-Modern Aramaic". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 105 (2): 221–231. doi:10.2307/601702. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 601702.