Senaya

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Senaya is a modern Eastern Aramaic dialect traditionally spoken by the Christian community from Sanandaj in western Iran.

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Label Occurrences
Senaya canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialect
modern Aramaic language variety
alternativeName Sanandaj Christian Neo-Aramaic NERFINISHED
ancestor Classical Syriac NERFINISHED
Middle Aramaic NERFINISHED
chronology modern period
country Iran
ethnicGroup Assyrian Christians NERFINISHED
historicalRegion western Iran
ISOStatus no individual ISO 639-3 code (often grouped with other Neo-Aramaic varieties)
languageBranch Semitic languages
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
languageStatus endangered language
morphologicalFeature Semitic root-and-pattern morphology
numberOfSpeakers very few speakers
phonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
primaryUsage liturgical language
vernacular language
region Sanandaj NERFINISHED
relatedTo Assyrian Neo-Aramaic NERFINISHED
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic NERFINISHED
religiousCommunity Christian
scriptVariant East Syriac script NERFINISHED
subBranch Aramaic languages
Neo-Aramaic languages
Northwestern Semitic languages NERFINISHED
syntaxFeature predominantly verb–subject–object word order
traditionalSpeakers Christian community of Sanandaj NERFINISHED
writingSystem Syriac script NERFINISHED

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Eastern Aramaic hasPart Senaya