Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Urmia

Lishán Didán
לשן דידן Lišān Didān, לשנן Lišānān
Pronunciation[liˈʃan diˈdan] [liˈʃanan]
Native toIsrael, United States; originally Iran, Turkey; briefly Azerbaijan, Georgia (country)
RegionJerusalem, Tel Aviv, New York, Los Angeles; originally from Iranian Azerbaijan
Native speakers
4,500 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3trg
Glottologlish1246
ELPJewish Azerbaijani Neo-Aramaic

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Urmia, a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic, was originally spoken by Jews in Urmia and surrounding areas of Iranian Azerbaijan from Salmas to Solduz and into what is now Yüksekova, Hakkâri and Başkale, Van Province in eastern Turkey.[2] Most speakers now live in Israel.

Rahel speaking Jewish Neo-Aramaic (Lishan Didan)
  1. ^ Lishán Didán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Garbell, Irene (1965). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Persian Azerbaijan: Linguistic Analysis and Folkloristic Texts. Walter de Gruyter. p. 13. ISBN 978-3-11-087799-1.

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