Western Neo-Aramaic (Lišāna Arāmīṯ /ܐܪܡܝܐ)

Western Neo-Aramaic is spoken by about 15,000 people in three villages - Ma'lula (معلولة‎), Bakh'a (بخعة‎) and Jubb Adin (جبّعدين‎), in the Anti-Lebanon mountains of western Syria. It is the only living Aramaic language that belongs to the western branch of Aramaic languages.

Each of the villages where Western Neo-Aramaic is spoken has its own dialect, which are influenced to differing degrees by Arabic. The dialect of Jubb Adin is the most influenced by Arabic.

Western Neo-Aramaic alphabet and pronunciation

Download Western Neo-Aramaic chart provided by Wolfram Siegel (Word doc, in German)

Links

Information about Western Neo-Aramaic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic
http://www.ethnologue.com/language/amw
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3839/samples/5911

Numbers in Western Neo-Aramaic
http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/numeral/Western-Neo-Aramaic.htm

Languages written with theHebrew script

Aramaic,Bukhori,Domari,Hebrew,Jewish Neo-Aramaic,Judeo-Arabic,Judeo-Persian,Juhuri,Knaanic,Ladino,Mozarabic,Yiddish,Yevanic

Semitic languages

Akkadian,Amharic,Arabic (Algerian),Arabic (Bedawi),Arabic (Chadian),Arabic (Egyptian),Arabic (Gulf),Arabic (Hassaniya),Arabic (Hejazi),Arabic (Lebanese),Arabic (Modern Standard),Arabic (Moroccan),Arabic (Najdi),Arabic (Sudanese),Arabic (Syrian),Aramaic,Argobba,Assyrian / Neo-Assyrian,Canaanite,Chaha,Chaldean Neo-Aramaic,Ge'ez,Hadhramautic,Harari,Hebrew,Himyaritic,Jewish Neo-Aramaic,Maltese,Mandaic,Nabataean,Neo-Mandaic,Phoenician,Punic,Qatabanic,Sabaean,Sabaic,Silt'e,Syriac,Tigre,Tigrinya,Turoyo,Ugaritic,Western Neo-Aramaic

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