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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amədya
Author(s): Jared Greenblatt (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: December 7, 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 380 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004182578
- ISBN-13: 9789004182578
Book Description
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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About the Author
Jared R. Greenblatt, Ph.D. (2008) in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies, University of Cambridge, currently holds a research post at Tel Aviv University and is working on a comprehensive lexicon of the inherited Aramaic component of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic languages.
