Christian Neo-Aramaic dialect of Senaya

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Senaya
ܣܢܝܐ Senāya, ܣܘܪܝ Soray
Pronunciation[sɛnɑjɑ], [soraj]
Native toIran
RegionTehran and Qazvin
Native speakers
(60 cited 1997)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
    • Senaya
Syriac (Māḏnhāyā alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3syn
Glottologsena1268
ELPSenaya

Senaya

Kurdistan Province in Iran. Most speakers now live in California, United States and few families still live in Tehran, Iran. They are mostly members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Senaya is significantly different from Sanandaj Jewish Neo-Aramaic.[7]

Origin, history and use today

The city of

Hulaula
and Christian Senaya. The two languages developed along different lines, so that the two are not mutually comprehensible. One distinctive difference between the two is the sound change associated with the Middle Aramaic fricative θ (th), often rendered as l in Hulaula, and s in Senaya. For example, mîθa, 'dead', is mîsa in Senaya, and mîla in Hulaula.

Most Senaya speakers are members of the

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic spoken by the larger Church of the East community there. Both church communities use classical Syriac in worship. Senaya is written in the Madnhāyâ version of the Syriac alphabet
, which is also used for classical Syriac.

Research

1995 a research project under the leadership of Estiphan Panoussi in cooperation with Wolfhart Heinrichs granted by the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences analyzed the Senaya Dialect (Title: The Christian Senaya Dialect on Neo-Aramaic Texts, Grammar and Dictionary). The project produced three volumes: Senaya, A Christian Neo-Aramaic Dialect (Originally in Persian Kurdistan) (400 pages). Senaya Grammar (300 pages). A Dictionary of the Neo-Aramaic Senaya Dialect (800 pages).

Senaya culture

The first recorded music with Senaya lyrics was released by Paul Caldani in 2002, titled Melodies of a Distant Land.

See also

References

  1. ^ Senaya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ISBN 9781555404307
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  3. doi:10.1111/synt.12153
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  4. S2CID 162155580
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  5. JSTOR 605827
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  6. S2CID 216353456
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  7. ISBN 978-1-60724-134-8
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Publications
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