Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic

Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
[לשניד נשן] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |ltr= (help) Lišānîd Nošān lit.'the language of our people', [לשנא דידן] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |ltr= (help) Lišānā Dîdān, lit.'our language'
Pronunciation[liʃɑˈnid noˈʃɑ̃]
RegionJerusalem, originally from eastern and northern Iraq and Southeastern Turkey.
Native speakers
3,500 (2018)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3aij
Glottologlish1245
ELPInter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic

Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic,[2][3][4] or Lishanid Noshan, is a modern Jewish-Aramaic dialect, a variant of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic. It was originally spoken in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in and around Arbil between the Great Zab and Little Zab rivers, it was also spoken in Turkey in the city of Cizre and its environs and in the Hakkari Mountains. Most speakers now live in Israel.

  1. ^ "Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic". Ethnologue. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  2. ^ Kim 2008, p. 513.
  3. ^ "Did you know Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic is severely endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  4. ^ 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.