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Notes on Historical Morphology of Turoyo
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Yulia Furman, Sergey Loesov
Turoyo is the most archaic among modern Eastern Aramaic languages (with the exception of Neo-Mandaic), hence its importance for the history of Aramaic. Numerous features of Turoyo verbal morphology are easily traceable back to Classical Syriac proto-forms in so far as formal shapes are concerned. For this reason, the cases in which certain Turoyo forms do not stand in direct continuity with the assumed Syriac proto-forms promise new results in the reconstruction of the Middle Aramaic ancestor of Turoyo.
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Кашинцева К. В., Journal of Semitic Studies 2025 Vol. 70 No. 2 P. e52–e55
review of Otto Jastrow, Shabo Talay and Nikita Kuzin, Der neuaramäische Dialekt von Midyat (Miḏyoyo). Band II: Glossar, Semitica Viva 64, 2024. XVIII, 408 pages, €68.00 hardback. ISBN 978-3-447-11798-2, E-Book: ISBN 978-3-447-39468-0. ...
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Loesov S., Kalinin M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2026 Vol. 71 No. 1 P. 421–447
The paper offers a review of “The Verbal Systems of Aramaic” by Stefan Bruweleit and advances an account of Aramaic verbal morphosyntax. Early Western Aramaic is modeled as an absolute tense system, not an aspect-dominant one; the Akkadian-Stative pedigree for qṭal is rejected. A genealogical view is retained but tempered by Sapirian “drift,” notably the ...
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Lyavdansky A., , in: A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic.: Leiden: Brill, 2026. 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 ...
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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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Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Rashid D., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026. P. 389–455.
This article explores examples of influence from the Arabic magical traditions, both Christian and Muslim, that can be found in modern Syriac magical manuscripts. The following aspects of Arabic influence are discussed: visual elements (diagonal writing, kharaktēres, pseudo-Arabic script), terminology, texts containing Arabic formulae, magical practices, angels and demons (Gabriel and Michael, Tebʿā), and magic ...
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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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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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Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 22–48
The first part of the inquiry on Syriac love charms was devoted to the recipe-type
charms. This article edits four more Syriac love charms, which are attributed to the so-called prayer-type. The special features of this type of Syriac love charms are addressed and compared with that of the recipe-type texts, edited in Part I. The ...
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Duntsov A. N., Бурлаков Ф. Ю., Головина А. А. et al., Тирош труды по иудаике 2021 № 21 С. 234–247
The publication presents a fragment of a story by Philip Šōʕra (Arabic: Aš-Šāʕir) in the Maʕlūla dialect of Modern Western Aramaic. Maaloula is a dialect of the Syrian city of the same name, located 55 km northeast of Damascus. Maaloula is one of three settlements in which dialects of modern Western Aramaic continue to be ...
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Häberl C. G., K. Kashintseva, S. Loesov, Aramaic Studies 2022 Vol. 20 No. 2 P. 213–273
The grammar of the village dialects of Ṭuroyo remains poorly described apart from that of Midən, and within the documentation there is a dearth of spontaneous conversations. Consequently, much about Ṭuroyo pragmatics and sociolinguistics in general also remains undescribed. We therefore present two short conversations between three residents of Kfarze in Tur Abdin, concerning a ...
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