Jubb'adin dialect

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The Jubb'adin dialect is a variety of Western Neo-Aramaic traditionally spoken in the village of Jubb'adin in Syria, notable as part of one of the last surviving branches of the Aramaic language.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bakhah dialect 1
Jubb'adin dialect canonical 1

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Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aramaic language variety
Western Neo-Aramaic dialect
closelyRelatedTo Bakhah dialect
Maaloula dialect
country Syria
endangeredStatus severely endangered language
geographicIsolation mountain village setting
hasAlternativeName Jubb'adin Western Neo-Aramaic
linked to: Western Neo-Aramaic
hasFeature preservation of archaic Aramaic elements
strong Arabic contact influence
hasMorphologicalFeature broken plurals
root-and-pattern morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order (SVO)
verb–subject–object word order (VSO)
historicalAncestor Classical Aramaic
Western Middle Aramaic
influencedBy Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
isPartOf last surviving branches of Aramaic
languageBranch Semitic languages
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
languageGroup Aramaic
languageSubbranch Northwest Semitic languages
linked to: Northwest Semitic
lexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic language
linked to: Arabic
localNameLanguage Aramaic
partOf Western Neo-Aramaic
region Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Rif Dimashq Governorate
spokenBy small village community
spokenIn Jubb'adin
status non-official language in Syria
subclassOf Neo-Aramaic dialect
threatenedBy language shift to Arabic
traditionalReligionOfSpeakers Christianity
Islam
usedFor everyday oral communication
local cultural traditions
writingSystem Arabic script
Syriac script
linked to: Syriac alphabet

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

Western Neo-Aramaic hasDialect Jubb'adin dialect
Western Neo-Aramaic hasDialect Bakhah dialect
linked to: Jubb'adin dialect