Assyrian-New Aramaic dialect

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Assyrian-New Aramaic
Spoken in	Iraq , Syria , Iran
speaker	approx. 219,000
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asian languages Semitic languages Western Semitic languages Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Northeast Aramaic Assyrian-New Aramaic
Official status
Recognized minority / regional language in	Armenia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aii

The Assyrian-New Aramaic dialect ( Aramaic : ܐܬܘܪܝܐ Ātûrāyâ, ܣܘܪܝܬ Sûret et al. a .; also Nestorian-New Aramaic; Russian formerly ajsorskij, hence the name Aisor, today assirijskij ) is a north- east Aramaic dialect that has a total of around 200,000 speakers. The original distribution areas are Iraq (approx. 30,000 speakers), Syria (approx. 30,000 speakers) and Iran (approx. 15,000 speakers). Smaller groups of speakers can also be found in Transcaucasia , i. H. in Georgia and Armenia , as well as in Russia and Ukraine . Other speaker groups have migrated to Western and Central Europe, North America and Australia since World War II .

The Assyrian-New Aramaic dialect is close to the Chaldean-New Aramaic dialect and some smaller north -east Aramaic dialects. It has no direct connection with the Assyrian dialect of the ancient oriental language Akkadian , but both belong to the Semitic languages .

The speakers of this dialect are predominantly East Syrian Christians .

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The Assyrian-New Aramaic is written in the three scripts Estrangelo, Serto and Nestorian (see Syrian alphabet ), based on the dialect of Urmia ( Iran ).

In the 1920s and 1930s, attempts were made on the territory of the Soviet Union to write the language using the Cyrillic or Latin alphabet .

See also

• Syrian language: New Syriac
• pre-Reformation churches

literature

Test Wikipedia in Assyrian-New Aramaic

• Gotthelf Bergsträßer : Introduction to the Semitic languages. Speech samples and grammatical sketches. Hueber, Munich 1928, pp. 89–96 (5th unaltered reprint. In the appendix: Carl Brockelmann : Zur Syntax der Sprache von Ugarit. Hueber, Ismaning 1993, ISBN 3-19-005024-4 ), (dialect of Urmia).
• Harald Haarmann : Aisor (PDF; 115 kB). In: Miloš Okuka (Ed.): Lexicon of the Languages ​​of the European East. Wieser, Klagenfurt 2002, ISBN 3-85129-510-2 , p. 901 f. ( Wieser Encyclopedia of the European East, 10).

Web links

• Ethnologue, Languages ​​of the World: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kai joke lacquer Makarevich, Nadja Wulff: Handbook of Russian in Germany: Migration - Multilingualism - language acquisition . Frank & Timme GmbH, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7329-0227-9 ( google.de [accessed on October 20, 2018]).
2. ^ Announcement on the scope of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In: Federal Law Gazette Part 2. Bundesanzeiger Verlag , August 1, 2002, accessed on October 20, 2018 .