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Soqotri
Ch. 12. P. 280–320.
The chapter presents a synchronic description of the language Soqotri, belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch of the Semitic languages and spoken on the island of Soqotra. The description includes the basic facts on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language and is accompanied with a short original text in Soqotri provided with a linguistic glossing.
Loesov S., Arkhipov I., , in: Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic Languages: Proceedings of the 7th and 8th Meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics.: Eisenbrauns, 2026. P. 60–70.
The present paper is a comparative study of topics in Semitic historical morphosyntax. We are going to compare destinies of certain Perfect shapes in Akkadian and Aramaic. For our purposes, Perfect is a marker that encodes an event prior to the speech time, while the situation expressed by Perfect is depicted as having a resultative component ...
Added: May 12, 2026
Kogan L., Journal of the American Oriental Society, США 2025 Vol. 145 No. 3 P. 623–634
Arab lexicographers rarely attempted to search for a foreign origin of Arabic words, trying instead to derive them—not very persuasively—from autochthonous Arabic roots. Known exceptions mostly involve Persian, a foreign language par excellence for most Arab philologists. This article explores this phenomenon in a different linguistic domain, viz., loanwords from Classical Ethiopic (Geʿez), the language ...
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Shvedova E., Koryakov Y., Elizaveta Zabelina, Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3–4 P. 207–275
This study documents and analyzes lexical data from four Christian North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic varieties: Mahmudi, Nudiz, Verin Dvin Urmi, and Urmia Urmi, focusing on the previously undescribed Mahmudi and Nudiz. We provide correspondences from these lects for an extended 226-item basic vocabulary list collected for this study with etymologies, cognates from earlier Aramaic, and loanword sources. ...
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Leiden: Brill, 2026.
The Handbook of Neo-Aramaic aims to provide an introduction to, and details of the complex world of Neo-Aramaic. This large family of endangered Neo-Semitic languages is (or until recently was spoken by Jewish, Christian and Mandaean minorities in parts of the Middle East. Most members of these communities now live in various diasporas.
Following a series ...
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Shvedova E., Вопросы лексикографии 2024 № 34 С. 42–61
A group of scholars from Saint Petersburg and Moscow is working on a Lexicon of the Neo-Aramaic verbs. The purpose of the lexicon is to systematise data on the structure of the verb systems of various North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic varieties. The dictionary now contains information on Christian Urmi, Nudez, Mahmudi and Bohtan idioms. The dictionary is ...
Added: January 22, 2025
Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2025 Vol. 175 No. 1 P. 29–59
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Lyavdansky A., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2023 Т. 19 № 1 С. 193–229
On the basis of field and corpus data, preliminary observations are made about the form and function of serial verb constructions (SVC) in the varieties of Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic. Serial verb constructions are considered adopting
“wide” understanding of this phenomenon, represented by the works of Plungyan, Aikhenvald and Andrason among many others. Big amount of data ...
Added: August 7, 2023
Balakhvantsev A., Kogan L., Lyavdansky A. et al., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2022 Vol. 82 No. 4 P. 911–940
The authors publish a hitherto unknown squeeze made from a North West Semitic inscription. The squeeze originally belonged to the Russian Archeological Institute in Constantinople and is now hosted by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The inscription, performed in relief, may have been made on a large ...
Added: December 24, 2022
Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 1 P. 337–351
Suffix conjugations (SCs) of East and West Semitic may not be traced back to the same verb form in Proto-Semitic. Rather, they evolved separately, by way of a ‘common drift’ in the two branches of Semitic. This is demonstrated, in particular, by a crass contrast, both in forms and diathetic meanings, between the SCs of ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Kalinin M., Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 471–516
In Proto-Aramaic, the passive of transitive verbs belonging to all three principal stems—G, D and C—was formed internally. Some verbs of the G- and D-stems also possessed detransitive derivatives. Transitive verbs of the G-, D- and C-stems lost their internal passives early on, and the passives of G- and D-verbs were encoded by their respective ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Bulakh M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2021 Vol. 66 No. 1 P. 263–292
The present study considers the function of the pattern of the so-called stem IV, primarily associated with causatives, in Soqotri (Modern South Arabian). It focuses on the correlation between the semantics of the source verb and that of the derived verb, examines the semantic classes which are compatible with the causative morpheme, and establishes several ...
Added: February 21, 2021
Barsky E., Loesov S., , in: Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic.: Open Book Publishers, 2021. P. 1–28.
The ultimate source of inspiration for the present study is our ambition to offer a detailed description of the history of the Aramaic verbal system. A key event in this history is what Goldenberg used to call ‘the morphological revolution’, i.e. the shift, within Eastern Aramaic, from the Middle Aramaic2 verbal systems to those of Modern ...
Added: January 23, 2021
Bulakh M., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2020 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 677–720
The paper gives a survey of verbs of falling in Tigrinya (an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia). The employment of each verb related to the situation of falling down is illustrated with phrasal examples. The Tigrinya data is further compared with Geez, a closely related extinct language. A special subsection deals with ...
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Lyavdansky A., , in: Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic.: Open Book Publishers, 2021. P. 415–442.
The aim of this paper is to present a basic word list for Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic provided with etymologies and a discussion of problematic positions in the list. This study, which uses a variant of Swadesh list of 110 basic words, is the first research outcome after creating an electronic corpus of literary Christian Urmi based on the texts published in Soviet Union in 1929 - 1938 ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Open Book Publishers, 2021.
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 ...
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Häberl C., Kuzin N., Loesov S. et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2020 Vol. 65 No. 2 P. 473–493
Versions of the folktale Zêrka Zêra (in Kurdish)/Stērka Zerá (in Ṭuroyo) circulate throughout southeastern Anatolia. The story belongs to a widely-disseminated tale type, the ‘Bear’s Wife’, which concerns a young woman who is abducted by a bear (or other wilderness creature) and is forced to spawn and rear his children before escaping or being rescued. ...
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Semitic inscriptions in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod: a reply to alternative interpretations
Gippius A., Gzella H., Mikheev S. M. et al., Russian linguistics 2020 Vol. 44 P. 1–12
In the present article, we offer a detailed reply to alternative interpretations of our explanation of two eleventh-century phrases inscribed many times on the walls of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod: коуни рони and парехъ мари. According to our previous article in this journal, the phrases have a Semitic origin: Hebrew qūmī ronnī and Syriac /barren̲k mār/, respectively. In ...
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Kogan L., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2019 Vol. 139 No. 4 P. 893–906
Thirty years after the appearance of Wolf Leslau’s Comparative Dictionary of
Geʿez, the present study aims at correcting and updating some of the entries of this
major tool of Semitic etymology. New data from Ugaritic, Akkadian, and especially
Modern South Arabian are prominent among the additions (particularly the
Soqotri lexical material acquired in the course of the many years ...
Added: February 20, 2020
Bulakh M., , in: Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective.: Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. Ch. 8 P. 159–189.
The article explores the origins of Semitic color terms for yellow, green, and blue. These fundamental color categories are missing from the reconstructed proto-Semitic basic color term system, but their designations were added into basic color term systems of many daughter languages. This chapter focuses on derivations from designations of “referent objects” (objects typically characterized ...
Added: October 27, 2019