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The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Tin
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Linguistics and Philology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0451-4397
2025 (English)In: Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures — A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan: Volume 2: The Medieval World, Judaeo-Arabic, and Neo-Aramaic / [ed] Aaron D. Hornkohl; Nadia Vidro; Janet C. E. Watson; Eleanor Coghill; Magdalen M. Connolly; Benjamin M. Outhwaite, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2025, p. 855-894Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The article presents the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Tin, a village in the Ṣapna valley in northern Iraq, focusing on the dialect’s phonology, morphology, and lexicon. This variety, spoken by Christians of the Chaldean Catholic Church, is most closely related to the nearby Christian dialect of Aradhin, but is nevertheless distinct in many ways. The synchronic description is supplemented with a comparative and historical perspective, indicating how Tin’s features fit into the NENA dialectal map and how unusual or unexpected forms can be explained by historical developments. Contact influences from Northern Kurdish and vernacular Arabic are also discussed. Interesting features of this dialect include the innovation of an initial /d/ in the Present Base forms of verba primae /ʾ/ and sporadic cases of vowel harmony.

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Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2025. p. 855-894
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Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, ISSN 2632-6906, E-ISSN 2632-6914 ; 35
Keywords [en]
Neo-Aramaic, language documentation, Iraq, NENA
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Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics Studies of Specific Languages
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Linguistics; Semitic Languages
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-555773DOI: 10.11647/obp.0464.29ISBN: 978-1-80511-579-3 (print)ISBN: 978-1-80511-580-9 (print)ISBN: 978-1-80511-581-6 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-555773DiVA, id: diva2:1956102
Available from: 2025-05-05 Created: 2025-05-05 Last updated: 2025-05-06Bibliographically approved

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