The Handbook of Neo-Aramaic aims to provide an introduction to, and details of the complex world of Neo-Aramaic. This large family of endangered Neo-Semitic languages are (or until recently were) spoken by Jewish, Christian and Mandaean minorities in parts of the Middle East. Most members of these communities now live in various diasporas.
Following a series of general chapters dealing with historical background, classification, salient linguistic features, Neo-Semitic context, contact languages (Kurdish, etc.), manuscripts and printed texts, Neo-Aramaic in the media etc., the book presents grammatical sketches of 15 different Neo-Aramaic dialects (some never described before), followed by maps and a bibliography.
The book hopes to provide material of interest both to the beginner and the more advanced specialist.
Contributors are: Werner Arnold, Roberta Borghero, Michael L. Chyet, Eleanor Coghill, Alinda Damsma, Steven E. Fassberg, Samuel Ethan Fox, Charles G. Haeberl, Simon Hopkins, Otto Jastrow, Olga Kapeliuk, Geoffrey Khan, Nineb Lamassu, Alexey Lyavdansky, Alessandro Mengozzi, Matthew Morgenstern, Hezy Mutzafi, Yona Sabar, Shabo Talay, and Aziz Tezel.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
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978-90-04-72511-9 (9789004725119)
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Simon Hopkins is Professor Emeritus of Arabic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Studies in the Grammar of Early Arabic (Oxford 1984) and (together with J. Blau) Early Judaeo-Arabic in Phonetic Spelling, I-II (Jerusalem 2017-2024).
Steven E. Fassberg, Ph.D. (1984), Harvard University, is the Caspar Levias Professor Emeritus of Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa (Brill, 2010).
