Jewish Neo-Aramaic Innovations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17823945
AutoresHezy Mutzafi (0000-0002-6427-7346, Tel Aviv University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas85-108
Fecha de publicación2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-12340061
OpenAlexW2316741218
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas17

The present article concerns salient Jewish Neo-Aramaic ( jna ) innovations in the framework of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic ( nena ). jna is such a wide spectrum of varieties that in some cases geographically distant dialects are fundamentally different from each other on all levels of language structure and are mutually incomprehensible. Nevertheless, all these dialects share some typical or unique traits which transcend dialectal boundaries and bind the jna varieties together to the exclusion of all or the vast majority of neighboring Christian nena dialects. Ethnolectal divisions and separate Jewish as opposed to Christian isoglosses in nena have likely emerged due to diffusional patterns dominated by the force of communal and confessional cohesiveness that has overridden convergence and affinity with geographically proximate, but religiously distinct, nena -speaking communities

Archaeology · Confessional · Group cohesiveness · Judaism · Political science · Salient · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · African Studies and Geopolitics · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology