Gardabani Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
Gardabani Bohtan Neo-Aramaic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Russia and Georgia. Glottolog rates it moribund.
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Bohtan Neo-Aramaic is a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic originally spoken by ethnic Assyrians on the plain of Bohtan in the Ottoman Empire. Its speakers were displaced during the Assyrian genocide in 1915 and settled in Gardabani, near Rustavi in Georgia, Göygöl and Ağstafa in Azerbaijan. However it is now spoken in Moscow, Krymsk and Novopavlosk, Russia. It is considered to be a dialect of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic since it is a northeastern Aramaic language and its speakers are ethnically Assyrians.
The closest related dialect is Hertevin, and Bohtan also shares many similarities with the peripheral Qaraqosh dialect.
From Wikipedia · Neo-Aramaic dialect of Bohtan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Gardabani Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | barnoSa* | |
| name | S3mma* | |
| eye | ayna* | |
| ear | nota* | |
| nose | naxira* | |
| tooth | koka* | |
| tongue | l3SSona* | |
| hand | ida* | |
| blood | d3mma* | |
| bone | garma* | |
| knee | b3rka* | |
| breast | x3dya* | |
| water | moye* | |
| fire | nura* | |
| star | k3xwa* | |
| stone | kepa* | |
| mountain | malla* | |
| tree | dorma* | |
| leaf | tarpa* | |
| night | layle* | |
| dog | kalba* | |
| fish | nunta* | |
| one | xa* | |
| two | tra* | |
| I | ona* | |
| you | ow3t* | |
| we | axni* | |
| drink | Stoya* | |
| see | xzoya* | |
| hear | Smoya* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
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- Lishán DidánAfro-Asiatic55% alike
- Lishana DeniAfro-Asiatic52% alike
- Assyrian Neo-AramaicAfro-Asiatic51% alike
- HertevinAfro-Asiatic45% alike
- HulauláAfro-Asiatic45% alike
Grammar
- Chaldean Neo-AramaicAfro-Asiatic83% alike
- Koy Sanjaq Jewish Neo-AramaicAfro-Asiatic81% alike
- GiiwoAfro-Asiatic81% alike
- GuraniIndo-European79% alike
- Eastern Egyptian Bedawi ArabicAfro-Asiatic77% alike
- Lishanid NoshanAfro-Asiatic77% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · boht1238 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · bhn