Comparative lexical studies in Neo-Mandaic / / by Hezy Mutzafi.

Neo-Mandaic is the last phase of a pre-modern vernacular closely related to Classical Mandaic, a Mesopotamian Aramaic idiom of Late Antiquity. This unique language is critically endangered, being spoken by a few hundred adherents of Mandaeism, the only gnostic religion to have survived until the pre...

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Superior document:Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume 73
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 73.
Physical Description:1 online resource (243 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aspects of Previous Research
  • 3. Neo-Mandaic and Pre-Modern Aramaic
  • 4. Neo-Mandaic and Other Neo-Aramaic Varieties: Isolexes
  • 5. The Uniqueness of the Neo-Mandaic Lexicon within Neo-Aramaic
  • Bibliographical References
  • Index of Neo-Mandaic Words.