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.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Bakhah dialect 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aramaic language variety
Western Neo-Aramaic dialect
closelyRelatedTo Bakhah dialect NERFINISHED
Maaloula dialect NERFINISHED
country Syria
endangeredStatus severely endangered language
geographicIsolation mountain village setting
hasAlternativeName Jubb'adin Western Neo-Aramaic NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Western Middle Aramaic NERFINISHED
influencedBy Arabic language NERFINISHED
isPartOf last surviving branches of Aramaic
languageBranch Semitic languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
languageGroup Aramaic
languageSubbranch Northwest Semitic languages NERFINISHED
lexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic language NERFINISHED
localNameLanguage Aramaic
partOf Western Neo-Aramaic NERFINISHED
region Anti-Lebanon Mountains NERFINISHED
Rif Dimashq Governorate NERFINISHED
spokenBy small village community
spokenIn Jubb'adin NERFINISHED
status non-official language in Syria
subclassOf Neo-Aramaic dialect
threatenedBy language shift to Arabic
traditionalReligionOfSpeakers Christianity NERFINISHED
Islam NERFINISHED
usedFor everyday oral communication
local cultural traditions
writingSystem Arabic script
Syriac script NERFINISHED

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Western Neo-Aramaic hasDialect Jubb'adin dialect
Western Neo-Aramaic hasDialect Jubb'adin dialect
this entity surface form: Bakhah dialect