Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Koy Sanjaq

Koy Sanjaq Neo-Aramaic
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Northeastern Koy Sanjaq Neo-Aramaic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	koys1241

Koy Sanjaq Jewish Neo-Aramaic is a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic in the Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic cluster. All speakers migrated to Israel in 1951 and as of 1985, the language was being acquired by children raised in Shtula, a moshav in Israel. ^[1]

Phonology

Consonants ^[2]

		Labial	Dental / Alveolar	Emphatic	Palatoalveolar	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Stops / affricates	Unvoiced	p	t	tˤ	tʃ	k	q		ʔ
	Voiced	b	d		dʒ	g
Fricatives	Unvoiced	f	s	sˤ	ʃ		χ	ħ	h
	Voiced		z	zˤ	ʒ		ʁ	ʕ
Nasal		m	n	mˤ
Lateral			l	lˤ
Rhotic			ɾ , r
Approximant		w			j

References

1. Hoberman 1985, p. 221.
2. Mutzafi 2002, p. 17.

Sources

• Mutzafi, Hezy (2002). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Koy Sanjaq (Iraqi Kurdistan). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN   978-3-447-04915-3.
• Hoberman, Robert D. (1985). "The Phonology of Pharyngeals and Pharyngealization in Pre-Modern Aramaic" . Journal of the American Oriental Society. 105 (2): 221–231. doi:10.2307/601702. ISSN   0003-0279. JSTOR   601702.