The Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Şirnak, Southeastern Turkey)

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Şirnak, Southeastern Turkey)Journal of Semitic StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RZ2FB6IG/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Paul M.NoorlanderThe Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Şirnak, Southeastern Turkey)http://syriaca.org/cbss/RZ2FB6IGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/RZ2FB6IGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/RZ2FB6IGJournal of Semitic Studies68:12023199-233Aramaic-speaking Christian communities used to be found in large numbers in various towns and villages throughout southeastern Turkey before the large-scale migration under duress as a consequence of the hostilities in the First World War and its aftermath. Marga was once the home of one such large community of Aramaic-speaking Christians who fled to northwestern Iraq or dispersed over the globe. This paper documents new data and provides a preliminary grammatical description of the Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken by the Christians of Marga (Margaye) from a comparative dialectological perspective. It presents an overview of the characteristic features, some of which are archaic and are no longer (as) productive in other dialects. This outline is accompanied by a short sample text narrating the tale of Xazalok and Dalalok, a bedtime story well-known to people in this region. Noorlander, Paul M. “The Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Şirnak, Southeastern Turkey).” Journal of Semitic Studies 68:1 (2023): 199–233. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgac025. Paul M. Noorlander, The Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Şirnak, Southeastern Turkey), Journal of Semitic Studies 68:1 (2023): 199–233, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgac025.MargaModern SyriacSyriac languageXIX-XXI CEXXI CEgrammar