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Document Details : Title: Further Akkadian Substrate Words and Meanings Surfacing in Neo-Aramaic Author(s): MUTZAFI, Hezy Journal: Orientalia Volume: 88 Issue: 2 Date: 2019 Pages: 210-237 DOI: 10.2143/ORI.88.2.3293095 Abstract : The present article deals with twenty cases of Akkadian lexical influences on Aramaic that are not attested until the modern period, including seventeen substrate words and possible substrate words, and three highly plausible semantic loans, all in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA). One of these substrate words occurs in Neo-Mandaic as well, and another also in Western Neo-Aramaic. All these are added to a considerable number of cases already discussed in the scholarly literature. As the vast majority of Akkadian lexical influences that surface in Neo-Aramaic are confined to NENA, it seems that the main reasons for the lack of their attestation in pre-modern Aramaic is the strictly vernacular nature of the remote progenitor of NENA, and the fact that the history of this dialect group is not attested. |
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