Gawar dialect

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The Gawar dialect is a regional variety of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic traditionally spoken by Assyrian communities from the Gawar region in southeastern Turkey.

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Gawar dialect canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Assyrian Neo-Aramaic dialect
dialect
country Turkey
diasporaUse Europe
Iran
Iraq
Syria
United States
displacementCause Assyrian genocide
World War I persecutions of Assyrians
linked to: Assyrian genocide
ethnicGroup Assyrian people
linked to: Assyrians

Assyrians
hasFeature case marking remnants
emphatic consonants
grammatical gender
rich verbal inflection
iso639-3Status has no separate ISO 639-3 code
languageBranch Eastern Aramaic
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
Semitic languages
languageOf Assyrian communities from the Gawar region
lexicalInfluence Arabic
Kurdish
Turkish
linked to: Turkish language
morphologicalType fusional language
partOf Assyrian Neo-Aramaic dialect continuum
phonologicalType Northeastern Neo-Aramaic phonology
regionOfOrigin Gawar
linked to: Gawar region

southeastern Turkey
relatedTo Jilu dialect
Nochiya dialect
Tyari dialect
Urmia dialect
religionAssociated Assyrian Church of the East
Chaldean Catholic Church
scriptVariant Eastern Syriac script
linked to: East Syriac script
spokenIn Gawar region
status endangered
moribund
subclassOf Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Neo-Aramaic
Northeastern Neo-Aramaic
traditionalRegion Hakkari region
southeastern Turkey
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Syriac alphabet
Syriac script
linked to: Syriac alphabet

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Assyrian Neo-Aramaic hasDialect Gawar dialect