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Hulaul language
Hulaul
Hla'l, Lin Non Pronunciation Nativeto Region Native speakers [hulaul] Israel, Iran, USA Israel, originally form Iranian Kurdistan 10,000 (1999) [1]
Language family Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Northeastern Language codes ISO 639-3 huy Hulaul
Hulaul (Hebrew: ) is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic. It was originally spoken in Iranian Kurdistan. Most speakers now live in Israel. The name Hulaul simply means 'Jewish'. Speakers sometimes call their language Lishana Noshan or Lishana Akhni, both of which mean 'our language'. To distinguish it from other dialects of Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Hulaul is sometimes called Galiglu ('mine-yours'), demonstrating different use of prepositions and pronominal suffixes. Scholarly sources tend simply to call it Persian Kurdistani Jewish Neo-Aramaic.
Hulaul language the USA. Hulaul is written in the Hebrew alphabet. Spelling tends to be highly phonetic, and elided letters are not written.
References
[1] Hulaul reference (http:/ / www. ethnologue. com/ language/ huy) at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
Heinrichs, Wolfhart (ed.) (1990). Studies in Neo-Aramaic. Scholars Press: Atlanta, Georgia. ISBN 1-55540-430-8. Maclean, Arthur John (1895). Grammar of the dialects of vernacular Syriac: as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, north-west Persia, and the Plain of Mosul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul. Cambridge University Press, London.
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