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Neo-Aramaic Texts in the New Alphabet Published in the Soviet Union 1929-1938
Ch. 13. P. 365–384.
The purpose of this contribution is to present the corpus of Neo-Aramaic Texts in the New Alphabet in its entirety, summarize what has been done in the field, and demonstrate how the nascent digitized corpus of Christian Urmi in Latinized orthography can contribute to research into this idiom. To this end, several linguistic features are discussed: orthography; synharmonism (pharyngealization); classicisms in orthography, morphology, and syntax; demonstrative pronouns; the qam qāṭəlle construction; serial verbs; and the lexicon.
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 ...
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Кашинцева К. В., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026.
This article explores the marking of adnominal possession in the Turoyo language. The language employs two sets of possessive suffixes (see Table 1 below) the distribution of which has been somewhat unclear. On the one hand, it has been suggested that these sets could be used interchangeably with nouns denoting body parts, kinship terms, and inherent ...
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Brill, 2026.
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Anna Bromirskaya, Grishin N., Häberl C. et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2025 Vol. 70 No. 1 P. 67–86
Older residents of the Modern Western Aramaic-speaking village of Maaloula are keenly aware of the progressive impoverishment of their lexicon as the younger generations come to maturity without direct knowledge of traditional ways of life and material culture. In this short Modern Western Aramaic text, two such residents discuss both the localities in which these ...
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Shvedova E., Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Литературоведение. Языкознание. Культурология» 2024 Т. 26 № 5 С. 110–140
The article is devoted to causative verb alternation in Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic. I have analyzed the formal types of 31 causal/noncausal verb pairs developed by M. Haspelmath (1993). Field data were collected during the fieldtrip to the village of Urmiya, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. I show that Haspelmath’s ordering of verb meanings according to the likelihood ...
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Arkhipov A., Daniel M., Shiryaev A et al., , in: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.: Prague: Guarant International, 2023. P. 3407–3411.
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Häberl C. G., Kashintseva K., Loesov S., , in: Language Diversity in Iran: New Texts and Perspectives from Non-Iranian Languages.: De Gruyter, 2024. Ch. 8 P. 285–358.
This survey offers a brief grammatical description of the Turoyo language spoken in the southeast of Turkey. Ṭuroyo is a largely unwritten Eastern Neo-Aramaic language, which derives its name from the Tur Abdin region. The Tur Abdin region, the ancient home of Ṭuroyo and the last remaining stronghold of Aramaic in the Republic of Türkiye, ...
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De Gruyter, 2024.
The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact with Iranian languages. Comparatively few of Iran's minority languages are well-documented or even widely known outside of a small cadre of specialists. A volume that organizes sketches of the non-Iranian languages of Iran offers a unique perspective on ...
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Lyavdansky A., Kozhanov K., Ovsjannikova M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2024 Vol. 69 No. 1 P. 231–267
The article discusses dialectal and folkloristic features of an oral narrative in a North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) variety recently recorded in the Southern Russian village of Urmiya. The dialect of the tale belongs to the NENA varieties originating in the easternmost regions of Turkey, which is corroborated by the tale’s speaker, who named its places of ...
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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 ...
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Berzon E., Maksim Kalinin, Sergey Koval et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 2 P. 391–402
This paper offers an interpretation of an insufficiently understood verb form in the Neo-Babylonian letter OIP 114, 17:8, 29, thereby clarifying its contents. The word in question is shown to be an Aramaic verb form. This interpretation is supported by observations on the orthography and phonology of early Neo-Babylonian. It follows from the study that ...
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Шведова Е. Е., В кн.: Восемнадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 25–27 ноября 2021 г.).: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2021. С. 207–211.
Тезисы к докладу, появященному каузативно-инхоативным глагольным парам в христианском урмийском новоарамейском. Анализировались способы маркирования в 31 паре глаголов, предложенных в [Haspelmath 1993]. Сделаны предварительные выводы о влиянии на тип кодирования каузативной оппозиции в урмийском таких семантических параметров, как прототипичность ситуации, степень агентивности субъекта и степень переходности. ...
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Russkih A., В кн.: Девятнадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей: тезисы докладов.: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2022. С. 123–126.
Настоящее исследование посвящено установлению локуса маркирования синтаксической связи в атрибутивных посессивных конструкциях с релятором ət в урмийском новоарамейском. Конструкция с релятором в урмийском новоарамейском является основным способом выражения как прототипических, так и ти- пологически периферийных значений посессивной зоны [Русских 2021]. В исследовании показано, что несмотря на то, что фонетически частица ət ассоциируется с вершиной посессивной конструкции, синтаксически она образует одну ...
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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 ...
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Russkih A., В кн.: Восемнадцатая конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 25–27 ноября 2021 г.).: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2021. С. 168–172.
Тезисы посвящены выражению приименной посессивности в урмийском новоарамейском. На основе данных, собранных в 2021 г. в с. Урмия (Краснодарский край), описываются возможные приименные посессивные конструкции и рассматриваются факторы, влияющие на выбор между ними. ...
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