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Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic

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Series: Semitic Languages and Cultures, Book 5

LinguisticsBible Studies

ISBN10: 1783749474
ISBN13: 9781783749478
Publisher: Open Book Publ S
Published: Jul 31 2020
Pages: 542
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit a remarkable diversity of structures. Moreover, the considerable depth of attestation of Aramaic from earlier periods provides evidence for pathways of change. For these reasons the research of Neo-Aramaic is of importance for more general fields of linguistics, in particular language typology and historical linguistics.

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