Jubb'adin

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Jubb'adin is a village in Syria notable as one of the last remaining communities where Western Neo-Aramaic is still spoken.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Jubb'adin canonical 2
Jubb Adin 1
Jubb'adeen 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf village
climate semi-arid
continent Asia
country Syria
distanceFromCapital approximately 60 km northeast of Damascus
elevationAboveSeaLevel approximately 1600 metres
geographicFeature mountain village
hasAlternativeName Jubb Adin
linked to: Jubb'adin

Jubb'adeen
linked to: Jubb'adin

Jubb‘adīn
linked to: Jubb'adin
historicalLanguage Aramaic
languageSpoken Arabic
Western Neo-Aramaic
locatedIn Syria
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Al-Qutayfah District
Maaloula Nahiyah
linked to: Maaloula

Rif Dimashq Governorate
locatedInTimeZone Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Time
locatedNear Bakhah
Maaloula
majorityReligion Sunni Islam
notableFor preservation of Western Neo-Aramaic
traditional Aramaic-speaking community
oneOfLastCommunitiesWhereLanguageSpoken Western Neo-Aramaic
partOf Anti-Lebanon Mountains region
populationCensusYear 2004
region southwestern Syria
religion Islam
subregion Levant
linked to: Levant region
timeZoneOffset +02:00
timeZoneOffsetDST +03:00
writingSystemForLocalLanguage Arabic script

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Western Neo-Aramaic spokenIn Jubb'adin
Jubb'adin hasAlternativeName Jubb Adin
linked to: Jubb'adin
Jubb'adin hasAlternativeName Jubb'adeen
linked to: Jubb'adin
Jubb'adin hasAlternativeName Jubb‘adīn
linked to: Jubb'adin
Jubb'adin dialect spokenIn Jubb'adin