The ASJP Database - Wordlist Neo Aramaic

Wordlist Neo Aramaic

Compiled by Tessa de Mol-van Valen

No.	Meaning	Concepticon	Word	Loan

Glottocode: lish1245
ISO 639-3: aij

Coordinates WGS84

31°45'N, 35°E
31.75, 35.00

number of speakers	3,500
status	alive

Classification

WALS: AA > Semitic
Glottolog: Afro Asiatic > Semitic > Westsemitic > Centralsemitic > Northwestsemitic > Aramaic > Imperial Middle Modernaramaic > Middle Modernaramaic > Easternaramaic > Centraleasternaramaic > North Easternneo Aramaic > Trans Zab > Westerntrans Zab
Ethnologue: Afro Asiatic > Semitic > Central > Aramaic > Eastern > Central > Northeastern > Trans Zab

Sources

Khan 2002: The Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Rustaqa. In Werner Arnold & Hartmut Bobzin (eds.), "Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!" 60 Beiträge zur Semitistik: Festschrift für Otto Jastrow zum 60. Geburtstag, 395-409. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.