Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic

Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic
לשניד נשן Lišānîd Nošān lit. 'the language of our people', לשנא דידן Lišānā Dîdān, lit. 'our language'
Pronunciation	[liʃɑˈnid noˈʃɑ̃]
Region	Jerusalem, originally from eastern and northern Iraq and Southeastern Turkey.
Native speakers	3,500 (2018)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Northeastern Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aij
Glottolog	lish1245
ELP	Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic

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 Arbil 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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