Lishanid Noshan
Lishanid Noshan is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Iraq and Israel. Glottolog rates it moribund.
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Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic, or Lishanid Noshan, is a modern Jewish-Aramaic dialect, a variant of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic. It was originally spoken in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in and around Erbil between the Great Zab and Little Zab rivers, it was also spoken in Turkey in the city of Cizre and its environs and in the Hakkari Mountains. Most speakers now live in Israel.
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Words in Lishanid Noshan
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | naSa* | |
| name | Sima* | |
| eye | 7ena* | |
| ear | naXala* | |
| nose | poqa* | |
| tooth | kaka* | |
| tongue | liSana* | |
| hand | ila7* | |
| blood | dima* | |
| bone | garma* | |
| skin | gilda* | |
| knee | Cok* | |
| breast | mamona* | |
| water | maXe* | |
| fire | nura* | |
| sun | SimSa* | |
| star | kixwa* | |
| stone | kepa* | |
| mountain | tura* | |
| tree | 7ilana* | |
| leaf | tarpa* | |
| night | lele* | |
| dog | kalba* | |
| fish | masita* | |
| louse | qamla* | |
| one | xa* | |
| two | tre* | |
| I | 7ana* | |
| you | 7at* | |
| we | 7atxan* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Grammar
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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