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Bohtan Neo-Aramaic is a modern Eastern Neo-Aramaic language. Originally, Bohtan Neo-Aramaic was spoken on the Plain of Bohtan
in Şırnak Province of southeastern Turkey, but it is now spoken mostly around the village of Gardabani, near Rustavi in Georgia.
Before World War I, there were around 30,000 speakers of Bohtan Neo-Aramaic on the Plain of Bohtan, around the town of Cizre
in Turkey's Sirnak Province. Mostly Assyrian Christians, their language was a northern dialect of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, but
already somewhat more conservative than the standard Alqosh dialect. With the Assyrian Genocide that hit the Assyrians in
eastern Turkey at the end of the war, many were forced from their homes. A decimated population travelled from Bohtan and
eventually resettled in Garbadani in southeastern Georgia, 530 km from their original home. Many of the speakers of Bohtan
Neo-Aramaic are over sixty year of age. The younger generations tend to use Georgian or Russian instead. The latest study
of the language was carried out by Samuel Ethan Fox in 1999, showing that Bohtan Neo-Aramaic has retained many conservative
features of Chaldean and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic which are not present in the standard Alqosh and Urmia dialects, but has also
developed new features that are not present in other dialects. |
Names (more)[ar] لغة آرامية بوتانية حديثة[br] Nevez-aramaeg bohtanek [en] Bohtan Neo-Aramaic [sh] Bohtan neoaramejski [hr] Bohtan neoaramejski [th] ภาษาอราเมอิกใหม่โบห์ตัน |
Language type : Living
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