The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of KhorramshahrHarrassowitz, 2009 - 378 pagina's Neo-Mandaic is the only surviving dialect of Aramaic to be recognized as a direct descendant of any of the classical dialects of Late Antiquity. The Mandaeans who speak it are adherents of a pre-Islamic Gnostic sect, the only such sect to survive to the present day. As such, Mandaic may be considered as both a living language of the modern Middle East and also the vehicle of one of the great religious traditions of that region, along with Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. Unfortunately, Neo-Mandaic is severely endangered, and all signs indicate that the current generation of speakers is likely to be the last. As a description of an endangered language, this work addresses one of the chief concerns of linguists in the 21st century, namely the impending loss of the majority of the world's languages and the immense threat to both linguistic and cultural diversity that it represents. This grammar is the fi rst account of a previously undocumented dialect of Neo-Mandaic, and most thorough description of any Neo-Mandaic dialect. In addition to a description of its phonology, inflectional paradigms, and morphosyntax, it includes a collection of ten texts, transcribed and translated, as well as a concise lexicon of the vocabulary found within these texts. |
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Kinship Terms | 6 |
Census of Mandaean Families 1877 | 9 |
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1st pl 1st sg 3rd m.sg 3rd pl accented syllables appear Arabic Aramaic assimilates attested become beginning bridge Čečāwā Classical Mandaic clause closed cluster collected consonant construct contextual contextual form copula D-stem derived described destroyed dialect Drower employed environment examples feminine final fricative G imperf G perf ganzibra geminated grammar Handbook III-Weak illustrates imperfective indefinite indicated inflected initial introduced Iran Iraq Khorramshahr language loan words Macuch Mandaeans marked masculine meaning morpheme Neo-Mandaic Note noun object suffixes origin paradigm participle passive pattern perfective Persian personal suffixes phoneme plural position possessive preceding present pronoun prop published radical referent relative remains represented result root segments Shushtar singular Sobbi speak stem stop strong subjunctive syllable Table texts third transcription verb verbal voiced voiceless vowel