Hulaulá language

Hulaulá language

Infobox Language
name=Hulaulá
nativename=יהודיותא "Hûla'ûlā", לשנא נשן "Lišānā Nošān"
pronunciation=/ˌhu.la.ʔuˈlɑ/
states=Israel, Iran, USA
region=Israel, originally form Iranian Kurdistan
speakers=10,000
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Semitic
fam3=Central Semitic
fam4=Aramaic
fam5=Eastern Aramaic
fam6=Central
fam7=Northeastern
iso2=arc|iso3=huy

Hulaulá 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 "Hulaulá" 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, Hulaulá 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".

Origin and use today

Hulaulá sits at the southeastern extreme of the wide area over which various Neo-Aramaic dialects used to be spoken. From Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran, the area extended north, to the banks of Lake Urmia. From there, it extended west to Lake Van (in Turkey), and south onto the Plain of Mosul (in Iraq). Then it headed east again, through Arbil, back to Sanandaj.

Hulaulá is somewhat intelligible with the Jewish Neo-Aramaic of Lake Urmia and Iranian Azerbaijan: Lishan Didan. It is also somewhat intelligible with its western neighbour, the Jewish Neo-Aramaic of Arbil: Lishanid Noshan. However, it is unintelligible with the Christian Neo-Aramaic of Sanandaj: Senaya. Christians and Jews spoke completely different Neo-Aramaic languages in the same region. Like other Judaeo-Aramaic languages, Hulaulá is sometimes called "Targumic", due to the long tradition of translating the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, and the production of targums.

The various dialects of Hulaulá were clustered around the major settlement areas of Jews in the region: the cities of Sanandaj and Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, Iran, with a southern outpost at Kerend, and a cluster in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. Hulaulá is full of loanwords from Hebrew, Persian and Kurdish.

The upheavals in their traditional region after the First World War and the founding of the State of Israel led most of the Persian Jews to settle in the new homeland in the early 1950s. Most older speakers still have Kurdish as a second language, while younger generations have Hebrew. Hulaulá is the strongest of all the Jewish Neo-Aramaic languages, with around 10,000 speakers. Almost all of these live in Israel, with a few remaining in Iran, and some in the USA.

Hulaulá is written in the Hebrew alphabet. Spelling tends to be highly phonetic, and elided letters are not written.

References

* 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.

See also

* Aramaic language
* Jewish languages
* Aramaic alphabet

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=huy Ethnologue report for Hulaulá] .


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