Lishan Didan

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Lishan Didan is a Jewish Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Kurdish and Azerbaijani Jews from the regions of northwestern Iran and eastern Turkey.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Lishanid Noshan 6
Lishan Didan canonical 4
Lishanán 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish Neo-Aramaic language
endangered language
modern Aramaic language
alternativeName Our Language (literal meaning of the name)
basicWordOrder subject–verb–object
closelyRelatedTo Hulaula
Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
Lishanid Noshan
linked to: Lishan Didan
culturalRole marker of identity for Kurdish and Azerbaijani Jews
diasporaCountry Canada
Israel
United Kingdom
United States
distinctFrom Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects of the same region
documentedBy linguists specializing in Neo-Aramaic
ethnicAssociation Jewish communities of Iranian Azerbaijan
Jewish communities of Kurdistan
linked to: Kurdish Jews
grammarType fusional language
historicalRegion Lake Urmia basin
linked to: Urmia Lake Basin

Salmas region
linked to: Salmas

Urmia region
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
Semitic languages
languageSubfamily North‑East Neo-Aramaic
linked to: Eastern Aramaic
lexicalInfluence Aramaic
Azerbaijani
Hebrew
Kurdish
Persian
linked to: Persian language
liturgicalUse used alongside Hebrew in some prayers and piyyutim
morphologicalFeature rich verbal inflection
numberOfSpeakers a few thousand speakers (approximate)
phonologicalFeature emphatic consonants typical of Semitic languages
primaryCountryOfOrigin Iran
region eastern Turkey
northwestern Iran
religiousContext used in Jewish religious and communal life
scriptUsage sometimes transcribed in Latin script in modern studies
traditionally written in Hebrew script
secondaryCountryOfOrigin Turkey
shiftedTo Modern Hebrew in Israel
local majority languages in Iran and Turkey
status severely endangered
traditionalSpeakers Azerbaijani Jews
Kurdish Jews
writingSystem Hebrew alphabet
Syriac alphabet

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Referenced by (11)

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

Eastern Aramaic hasPart Lishan Didan
Eastern Aramaic hasPart Lishanid Noshan
linked to: Lishan Didan
Neo-Aramaic languages includes Lishan Didan
Neo-Aramaic languages includes Lishanid Noshan
linked to: Lishan Didan
Lishan Didan closelyRelatedTo Lishanid Noshan
linked to: Lishan Didan
Kurdish Jews notableDialect Lishanid Noshan
linked to: Lishan Didan
Hulaula alternativeName Lishan Didan
Hulaula alternativeName Lishanid Noshan
linked to: Lishan Didan
Hulaula alternativeName Lishanán
linked to: Lishan Didan
Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic relatedDialect Lishanid Noshan
linked to: Lishan Didan