Jubb'adin dialect

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The Jubb'adin dialect is a variety of Western Neo-Aramaic traditionally spoken in the village of Jubb'adin in Syria, notable as part of one of the last surviving branches of the Aramaic language.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bakhah dialect 1
Jubb'adin dialect canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aramaic language variety ⓘ
Western Neo-Aramaic dialect ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Bakhah dialect ⓘ
Maaloula dialect ⓘ
country Syria ⓘ
endangeredStatus severely endangered language ⓘ
geographicIsolation mountain village setting ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Jubb'adin Western Neo-Aramaic ⓘ
linked to: Western Neo-Aramaic
hasFeature preservation of archaic Aramaic elements ⓘ
strong Arabic contact influence ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature broken plurals ⓘ
root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
emphatic consonants ⓘ
pharyngeal consonants ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order (SVO) ⓘ
verb–subject–object word order (VSO) ⓘ
historicalAncestor Classical Aramaic ⓘ
Western Middle Aramaic ⓘ
influencedBy Arabic language ⓘ
linked to: Arabic
isPartOf last surviving branches of Aramaic ⓘ
languageBranch Semitic languages ⓘ
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages ⓘ
languageGroup Aramaic ⓘ
languageSubbranch Northwest Semitic languages ⓘ
linked to: Northwest Semitic
lexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic language ⓘ
linked to: Arabic
localNameLanguage Aramaic ⓘ
partOf Western Neo-Aramaic ⓘ
region Anti-Lebanon Mountains ⓘ
Rif Dimashq Governorate ⓘ
spokenBy small village community ⓘ
spokenIn Jubb'adin ⓘ
status non-official language in Syria ⓘ
subclassOf Neo-Aramaic dialect ⓘ
threatenedBy language shift to Arabic ⓘ
traditionalReligionOfSpeakers Christianity ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
usedFor everyday oral communication ⓘ
local cultural traditions ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Syriac script ⓘ
linked to: Syriac alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Western Neo-Aramaic → hasDialect → Jubb'adin dialect ⓘ
Western Neo-Aramaic → hasDialect → Bakhah dialect ⓘ
linked to: Jubb'adin dialect