LANGUAGE RECORD
Jewish Neo-Aramaic
The living continuation of ancient Jewish Aramaic — the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdish Jewry (Lishana Deni, Lishanid Noshan, Lishán Didán, Hulaulá), one of the few Jewish languages that grew since 1900.
- Family
- Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > Aramaic > Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA)
- Script
- Hebrew alphabet with some modification (when written); primarily oral.
- Vitality record
- endangered — Inter-Zab/Lishanid Noshan severely endangered; revival activity in Israel
A language, not a dialect. The record identifies Jewish Neo-Aramaic through its own family, grammar, literature, and history.
DOCUMENTED GEOGRAPHY
Places linked to Jewish Neo-Aramaic in the canon.
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WORDS AND INFLUENCE NOTES
Words connected to Jewish Neo-Aramaic.
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Indexed under Jewish Neo-Aramaic
0 recordsNo words are indexed under this language in the current canon.
Named in other word histories
0 notesNo other word history currently names Jewish Neo-Aramaic as an influence.
PERIODS IN THE RECORD
Jewish Neo-Aramaic through the era journey.
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Kurdistan dialect continuum — Zakho, Erbil, Rawanduz, Urmia, Sanandaj
1000–1951
Ingathering in Israel — transmission broken, documentation and revival
1951–present