37.2565, Books: A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic: Hopkins and Fassberg (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 04-Aug-2026
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic: Hopkins and Fassberg (eds.) (2026)


Title: A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic
Series Title: Brill's Handbooks in Linguistics
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/71922

Editor(s): Simon Hopkins and Steven E. Fassberg

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-72511-9
E-Book ISBN (PDF): 978-90-04-72512-6
DOI: 10.1163/9789004725126

Abstract:

The "Handbook of Neo-Aramaic" aims to provide an introduction to, and
details of the complex world of Neo-Aramaic. This large family of
endangered Neo-Semitic languages is (or until recently was spoken by
Jewish, Christian and Mandaean minorities in parts of the Middle East.
Most members of these communities now live in various diasporas.
Following a series of general chapters dealing with historical
background, classification, salient linguistic features, Neo-Semitic
context, contact languages (Kurdish, etc.), manuscripts and printed
texts, Neo-Aramaic in the media etc., the book presents grammatical
sketches of 15 different Neo-Aramaic dialects (some never described
before), followed by a series of maps, illustrations, and a
bibliography.
The book hopes to provide material of interest both to the beginner
and the more advanced specialist.
Contributors are: Werner Arnold, Roberta Borghero, Michael L. Chyet,
Eleanor Coghill, Alinda Damsma, Steven E. Fassberg, Samuel Ethan Fox,
Charles G. Häberl, Simon Hopkins, Otto Jastrow, Olga Kapeliuk,
Geoffrey Khan, Nineb Lamassu, Alexey Lyavdansky, Alessandro Mengozzi,
Matthew Morgenstern, Hezy Mutzafi, Yona Sabar, Shabo Talay, Aziz
Tezel, and Michael Waltisberg.
Readership: For students and scholars of Aramaic, Semitic languages,
Jewish languages, endangered linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Language Family(ies): Aramaic (aram1259)
                      Semitic (semi1276)

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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