Koy Sanjaq Surat

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Koy Sanjaq Surat is a modern Eastern Aramaic dialect spoken in and around the town of Koy Sanjaq in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Koy Sanjaq Surat canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Neo-Aramaic language variety
associatedEthnicGroup Assyrians
Chaldean Christians
belongsTo Northeastern Neo-Aramaic continuum
contactWithLanguage Arabic
Kurdish
Persian
country Iraq
endangeredStatus severely endangered
geographicDistribution town of Koy Sanjaq and nearby villages
hasAlternativeName Koy Sanjaq Neo-Aramaic
Koy Sanjaqi Neo-Aramaic
Surat of Koy Sanjaq
hasAncestor Classical Aramaic
Middle Aramaic
hasDialectType vernacular
hasMorphologicalFeature suffix-conjugated verbs
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
hasSpeakerCommunitySize small speaker community
hasSyntacticFeature basic SVO word order
ISO639Status no individual ISO 639-3 code (grouped under Northeastern Neo-Aramaic varieties)
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
Semitic languages
languageSubfamily North-East Neo-Aramaic
linked to: Eastern Aramaic
lexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Kurdish
Persian
linked to: Persian language
region Middle East
religionAssociated Christianity
spokenIn Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
linked to: Kurdistan

Koy Sanjaq
threatenedBy language shift to Arabic
language shift to Kurdish
usedInDomain home
oral tradition
religious life
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Syriac script

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Eastern Aramaic hasPart Koy Sanjaq Surat