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Also Known As: Hulani,Hula'ula,Jbeli,Galigalu,Kurdit,Arbili Neo-aramaic...
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Hulani,Hula'ula,Jbeli,Galigalu,Kurdit,Arbili Neo-aramaic,Lishana Didán

<b>Description:</b>

Lishanid Noshan is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic. It was originally spoken in southern and eastern Iraqi Kurdistan, in the region of Arbil. Most speakers now live in Israel. Lishanid Noshan means 'the language of our selves'; speakers often also call it Lishana Didan, which means 'our language'. However, as similar names are used by most of the dialects of Jewish Neo-Aramaic, scholarly sources tend to call it Arbil Jewish Neo-Aramaic. Other popular names for the language are Hula'ula, 'Jewish', Galigalu, 'mine-yours' (noting the difference in grammar from other dialects), and Kurdit, 'Kurdish'.
Various Neo-Aramaic dialects were spoken across a wide area from Lake Urmia to Lake Van (in Turkey), down to the plain of Mosul (in Iraq) and back across to Sanandaj (in Iran again). Lishanid Noshan is quite central to this area (although normally termed a southwestern dialect). It is somewhat intelligible with the Jewish Neo-Aramaic languages of Hulaula (spoken to the east, in Iranian Kurdistan) and Lishan Didan (spoken to the north east, in Iranian Azerbaijan). However, it is quite unintelligible from Lishana Deni, the dialect that originally<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1368677 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/israel Israel]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/asia Asia]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>aij</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Afro-Asiatic Group]]

    [[Semitic Group]]

      [[Central Semitic Group]]

        [[Aramaic Group]]

          [[Eastern Aramaic Group]]

            [[Central Eastern Group]]

              [[Northeastern Central Group]]

                <b>[[Lishanid Noshan Language]]</b>

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Rosbot at 20:18, 12 August 2009