| A Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dictionary: Dialects of Amidya, Dihok, Nerwa and Zakho, Northwestern Iraq Contributor(s): Sabar, Yona (Author) |
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ISBN: 3447045574 ISBN-13: 9783447045575 Publisher: Harrassowitz OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Arabic - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 492.2 |
| LCCN: 2002507136 |
| Series: Semitica Viva |
| Physical Information: 337 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This dictionary is based on old and recent manuscripts, printed texts, literary Midrashic texts, recorded oral Bible translations, folk literature, and diverse spoken registers. It has an extensive introduction, including a brief history of the Jewish dialects and their relations to older Aramaic, detailed observations on orthography, phonology, morphology, semantics, and other related grammatical features, that will serve the users well. The source for each word is indicated, including context quotations when necessary. A special effort was made to trace the origin of each and every word, be it native (classical and Talmudic Aramaic, Syriac etc.), or a loan word (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, general European). The Dictionary includes an index to all the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic words which have cognates or reflexes in Jewish Neo-Aramaic, a very important tool for the history of comparative linguistic studies of Aramaic. The Dictionary will be useful for scholars of Neo-Aramaic as well as classical and Talmudic Aramaic and Syriac, Semitic Languages, Jewish Languages, Languages in Contact, and other Near Eastern Languages in general. It is the first scholarly dictionary of Jewish Neo-Aramaic, and is intended to be a linguistic monument to the community that spoke it for many centuries until its emigration to Israel. |