A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic: The Dialect of the Jews of Arbel (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik) - Hardcover

Khan, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004115102 ISBN 13: 9789004115101

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1999

Synopsis

Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction. The transcribed texts in this volume record folktales and accounts of customs, traditions and experiences of the Jews of Kurdistan.

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About the Author:

Geoffrey Khan, Ph.D. (1984) in Semitic Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, is currently lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic at the University of Cambridge, England and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published widely on Semitic linguistics and medieval philology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 9004115102
• ISBN 13: 9789004115101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 586