| Senaya | |
|---|---|
| ܣܢܝܐ Senāya, ܣܘܪܝ Soray | |
| Pronunciation | [sɛnɑjɑ], [soraj] |
| Native to | Iran |
| Region | Tehran and Qazvin |
Native speakers | (60 cited 1997)[1] |
| Syriac (Māḏnhāyā alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | syn |
| Glottolog | sena1268 |
| ELP | Senaya |
Senaya[2][3] or Sanandaj Christian Neo-Aramaic[4][5][6] is a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic originally spoken by Christians in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province in Iran. Most speakers now live in California, United States and few families still live in Tehran, Iran. They are mostly members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Senaya is significantly different from Sanandaj Jewish Neo-Aramaic.[7]
- ^ Senaya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Panoussi, Estiphan (1990). "On the Senaya Dialect". Studies in Neo-Aramaic: 105–129. doi:10.1163/9789004369535_010. ISBN 9781555404307.
- ^ Kalin, Laura (2018). "Licensing and Differential Object Marking: The View from Neo-Aramaic". Syntax. 21 (2): 112–159. doi:10.1111/synt.12153.
- ^ Mutzafi, Hezy (2008). "Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 71 (3): 409–431. doi:10.1017/S0041977X08000815. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 40378798. S2CID 162155580.
- ^ Fox, Samuel Ethan (1994). "The Relationships of the Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 114 (2): 154–162. doi:10.2307/605827. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 605827.
- ^ Khan, Geoffrey (2020). "The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iran". Iranian Studies. 53 (3–4): 445–463. doi:10.1080/00210862.2020.1714430. S2CID 216353456.
- ^ Khan, Geoffrey (2009). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sanandaj. Gorgias Press. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-1-60724-134-8.
