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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: A Comparative Grammar ...
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Molin, Dorota. - : Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, 2021
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Abstract:
This thesis provides a linguistic analysis of key issues in the Neo-Aramaic dialect that was historically spoken by the Jewish community in Dohok, north-western Iraq. This linguistic variety belongs to the North-Eastern sub-branch of Neo-Aramaic – a group of dialects and languages used by Jews and Christians in parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Like many other linguistic varieties from the North-Eastern branch, the dialect of Dohok now faces imminent extinction. This work is based on a language questionnaire and a corpus of personal narratives, descriptions of traditions and folktales which I collected in my own fieldwork among speakers now living in Jerusalem, Israel. My analysis includes comparisons with other North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic varieties. These comparative data help to identify both the distinctive and the shared features of the Jewish Dohok dialect, and thus help place this dialect within the general linguistic landscape of the North-Eastern group. Such a comparison also leads on a few occasions to ... : Arts and Humanities Research Council ...
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Keyword:
comparative dialectology; endangered languages; linguistic typology; Neo-Aramaic
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.72064
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/324609
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