Neo-Mandaic
Sign in to saveNeo-Mandaic, also known as Modern Mandaic, sometimes called the "ratna" ( "jargon"), is the modern reflex of the Mandaic language, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran. Although severely endangered, it survives as the first language of a small number of Mandaeans (possibly as few as 100–200 speakers) in Iran and in the Mandaean diaspora. All Neo-Mandaic speakers are multilingual in the languages of their neighbors, Arabic and Persian, and the influence of these languages upon the grammar of Neo-Mandaic is considerable, particularly in the lexicon a
Key facts
- Language.name
- Neo-Mandaic
- Language.states
- Iran, formerly Iraq
- Language.speakers
- 100–200
- Language.ethnicity
- Mandaeans
- Language.date
- 2014
- Language.familycolor
- Afro-Asiatic
- Language.fam2
- Semitic
- Language.fam3
- Central Semitic
- Language.fam4
- Northwest Semitic
- Language.fam5
- Aramaic
- Language.fam6
- Eastern Aramaic
- Language.fam7
- Mandaic
- Language.ancestor
- Proto-Afroasiatic
- Language.ancestor2
- Proto-Semitic
- Language.ancestor3
- Old Aramaic
- Language.ancestor4
- Middle Aramaic
- Language.ancestor5
- Eastern Middle Aramaic
- Language.ancestor6
- Mandaic
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Article
23 sectionsContents
- General information
- Genetic affiliation
- History of scholarship
- Writing system
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Syllable structure
- Stress
- Nouns
- Gender and number
- Identifiability and referentiality
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Principal parts of the verb
- Inflected forms of the verb
- Tense, aspect, mood, and voice
- Syntax
- Variation among individual speakers
- Comparison
- See also
- References
- External links
Neo-Mandaic, also known as Modern Mandaic, sometimes called the "ratna" ( "jargon"), is the modern reflex of the Mandaic language, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran. Although severely endangered, it survives as the first language of a small number of Mandaeans (possibly as few as 100–200 speakers) in Iran and in the Mandaean diaspora. All Neo-Mandaic speakers are multilingual in the languages of their neighbors, Arabic and Persian, and the influence of these languages upon the grammar of Neo-Mandaic is considerable, particularly in the lexicon and the morphology of the noun. Nevertheless, Neo-Mandaic is more conservative even in these regards than most other Neo-Aramaic languages.
thumb|An oral history of the Mandaic language.