Westers Neo-Aramees (Aramees: ܣܪܝܘܢ, Siryōn "Syrisch"), ook bekend als liššōna arōmay, is een West-Aramese taalvariant.[1] Tegenwoordig wordt het alleen gesproken in drie Aramese dorpen - Maaloula, Bakh'ah en Jubb'adin - in het Anti-Libanongebergte in het westen van Syrië.[2][3][4][5][6] Aangenomen wordt dat westers Neo-Aramees het dialect van Aramees is die het dichtst in de buurt komt van het Aramees van Jezus, wiens eerste taal, volgens de consensus van de geleerden, Aramees was.[7]
Arnold, Werner: Lehrbuch des Neuwestaramäischen (A Manual to Western Neo-Aramaic), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-447-02910-2.
Bronnen, noten en/of referenties
↑King, Daniel. The Syriac World.. ISBN 9781317482116 "There are no significant differences in the dialect of Malula between the speech of Christians and Muslims. The native name is siryōn or arōmay."
↑ ab(en) Anas Abou-Ismail, Western Neo-Aramaic: The Dialect of Jubaadin. www.cambridgescholars.com p. 2. Geraadpleegd op 28 januari 2024. “Jubaadinis are very proud of their language and their Aramean identity and they have no trouble at all balancing their religious and ethnic identities.”
↑ abAbou-Ismail, Anas. The Semitic Heritage of Northwest Syria. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781527517578 "Arameans fled Maaloula, the influence of Christian liturgy on the Maaloula dialect will likely increase"
↑(en) Weaver, Christina Michelle, Kiraz, George A. (1 januari 2016). Turoyo Neo-Aramaic in northern New Jersey. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2016 (237): 19–36. ISSN:1613-3668. DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2015-0033. "Turoyo constitutes Central Neo-Aramaic, one of three geographical
distributions of Neo-Aramaic, the other two being Western Neo-Aramaic
(the language spoken in the three Syriac villages of Maʿlulah, Jubbʿadin, and
Bakhʿa) and Eastern Neo-Aramaic, which is divided into the Christian and
Jewish dialects of North Eastern Neo-Aramaic (Heinrichs 1990) as well as Neo-
Mandaic (Häberl 2009)."