| Sanandaj Neo-Aramaic | |
|---|---|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Sanandaj Jewish Neo-Aramaic is a variety of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic originally spoken by Jews in the city of Sanandaj, Iran. It is much more closely related to other Trans-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects than the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by Christians in the same town.[1]
Phonology
| Labial | Dental / Alveolar | Palato-alveolar | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Laryngeal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops / affricates | Unvoiced | p | t | tʃ | k | q | ʔ | |
| Voiced | b | d | dʒ | g | ||||
| Emphatic | (ṭ) | |||||||
| Fricatives | Unvoiced | f | s | ʃ | x | ħ | h | |
| Voiced | w | z | ʒ | ɣ | ʕ | |||
| Emphatic | (ṣ), (ż) | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Lateral | l (lˤ) | |||||||
| Rhotic | ɾ, r, (rˤ) | |||||||
| Approximant | j |
The historically pharyngealized consonants /ṭ/ and /ṣ/ in the current language have merged with /t/ and /s/ in many environments but sometimes affect the pronunciation of surrounding vowels.[3] /lˤ/ and /rˤ/ are consistently pharyngealized.[4]
References
Sources
- Khan, Geoffrey (2009). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Sanandaj. Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-60724-134-8.
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