Jewish Neo-Aramaic

This short film by Alan Niku offers a brief introduction to Jewish Neo-Aramaic, spoken by Jews in the Kurdish region of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The language is related to the ancient Aramaic language of the Talmud, some prayers, and parts of the Bible, but it differs due to historical developments and influences from local languages like Persian, Kurdish, Arabic, and Turkish. Jewish dialects are often more similar to each other than to local Christian Aramaic dialects. Today, Jewish Neo-Aramaic is endangered, as most speakers moved to Israel, the US, and other regions and did not pass their mother tongue along to their children. This film includes clips of conversation and song and images of Jews from the Kurdish region.
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Writer, Editor: Alan Niku
Producer: Sarah Bunin Benor, HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project
Narrator: Yasmine Razi
Music: Adi Kadussi
Images, Audio, and Video: Diarna, Alan Niku, Geoffrey Khan, Endangered Language Alliance, Mother Tongue, and Sarah Bunin Benor
Speakers: Noga Cohen, Sabiḥa Cohen, Yosef Cohen, Ilan Cohen, Massoud Tavakoli, Alan Niku, Hay-El, Mina, Dalya Ḥarfuf, Moussa Haim Jalil Harooni, Aziz Davidi, Nurollah Zargari

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  • @user-sh7oq4pv3g
    @user-sh7oq4pv3g Жыл бұрын

    Ktav Ashuri (Hebrew: כְּתָב אַשּׁוּרִי, ktav ashurí "Assyrian script"; also Ashurit) is the traditional Hebrew language name of the Hebrew alphabet, used to write both Hebrew and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. It is also sometimes called the "square script", the term is used to distinguish the Ashuri script from the Paleo-Hebrew script.

  • @carlosacta8726

    @carlosacta8726

    2 ай бұрын

    FASCINATING!!!!!!!!

  • @susank3496
    @susank34962 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the information 🙏 ❤️

  • @VanWilshere2134
    @VanWilshere213410 ай бұрын

    They are Assyrian, not Kurdish regions. The Jews in that region have lived amongst Assyrians prior to Kurds living there!

  • @-3ccis534

    @-3ccis534

    7 ай бұрын

    Not assyrian Assyrians are from South iraq this land is Kurdish

  • @VanWilshere2134

    @VanWilshere2134

    7 ай бұрын

    @@-3ccis534 and Kurds are from Iran, not from Iraq

  • @-3ccis534

    @-3ccis534

    7 ай бұрын

    @@VanWilshere2134 I said the truth semitie you don't belong to this lands

  • @Ramy_Ramz

    @Ramy_Ramz

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@VanWilshere2134 Read the history, many theories exist. All of them suggest Kurds are linked to the Toros-Zagros mountsins. So I don't know where you've drived your narritve from.

  • @aryasbokani6361

    @aryasbokani6361

    6 ай бұрын

    This is Assyrian propaganda. There are many Kurdish Jews in Israel who identify themselves as Kurds also they can speak Kurdish clrearly they have famous Kurdish singer in Isreal .You should know one of the Kurdish queen became Judaism her name is Helena Hezbani also Kurds people following meny diffreent religons like Ezidi,Elewi,Yaresan,Zoroastrian,also Islam and Judaism and you should Know Arabic related to Sami language but most of them are Muslim!!!!

  • @denkoxh8610
    @denkoxh8610 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. I was able to understand some of those words

  • @denkoxh8610
    @denkoxh86106 ай бұрын

    I wouldnt at all be surprised if the Assyrian Christians and Aramaic Jews of the Northern Iraq/ Urmia region mixed together. There is so much in common between the two - language and customs alike

  • @rrtvox

    @rrtvox

    6 ай бұрын

    I got my DNA test done and it says I am Assyrian and equally a genetic match with Jews of Iraq, Iran and Kurdistan (what was once ancient Assyria). So yes, your hunch or intuition on this matter is spot on.

  • @Almancahoca

    @Almancahoca

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@rrtvoxdo you know türkisch, kurdisch.

  • @mujemoabraham6522

    @mujemoabraham6522

    3 ай бұрын

    @@rrtvox What is your Haplogroup ?

  • @M4th3u54ndr4d3

    @M4th3u54ndr4d3

    25 күн бұрын

    Jews and suryoyo christians have a great amount of shared DNA

  • @rosaalba1660

    @rosaalba1660

    13 күн бұрын

    @@rrtvox Iran! The Zionists name to Ancient Persia, where they are Jews from the time of Darius The Great. Plus the most beautyfull ancient churches and Monasteries thastill exist. Free to go to Israel and free to come back, that"s why (Zionists) want to Nuke Iran.

  • @roses.4684
    @roses.4684 Жыл бұрын

    You are incorrect at 3:00. Most of the dialects spoken by Jews are mutually intelligible with the Assyrian Aramaic spoken. it's usually only Sandaj Aramaic that is different.

  • @generalkhalid1192

    @generalkhalid1192

    5 ай бұрын

    No they are not

  • @Sanharib

    @Sanharib

    3 ай бұрын

    yes, they are.. I'm also Assyrian and I can understand Jews who speak my language without ANY problems@@generalkhalid1192

  • @Lost7one
    @Lost7one8 ай бұрын

    So speakers of jewish neo-aramaic could not communicate with spekers of assyrian neo-aramaic even though they lived in the same city? Sounds very weird to me, never seen a video of a jewish aramaic speaker that sounds very different from Assyrian speakers of aramaic, having different dialects is normal even among assyrians but speaking with each other is not that difficult. Assyrians and Jews from that region even place extremely close to each other in DNA tests, jews from that region are much closer to assyrians than they are to kurds or other groups of jews.

  • @generalkhalid1192

    @generalkhalid1192

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes they cant, it is the same between ethnic kurds in Halabja city surroundings. They speak sorani kurdish or gorani kurdish which are really different but both people will identify as stubborn kurds. The region is all chaos

  • @Lost7one

    @Lost7one

    5 ай бұрын

    I believe that is wrong, Assyrians converted to Judaism especially in the historical nation of Adiabene en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabene @@rrtvox

  • @Sanharib

    @Sanharib

    3 ай бұрын

    dude... that's the second time you comment that Assyrians do not understand the aramaic of Jews.. You are absolutely WRONG. We understand EVERYTHING they say.. It is the same language buddy.. @@generalkhalid1192

  • @rrtvox

    @rrtvox

    3 ай бұрын

    @@SanharibAgreed! My dad is Chaldean. I have listened to Jews from Zakho and their Aramaic is nearly identical to the Christians from the same area.

  • @ninveh1
    @ninveh16 ай бұрын

    Just Ashurit

  • @rreid3990
    @rreid399011 ай бұрын

    This is fascinating! Wouldn't Aramaic and Hebrew be the languages of the Jewish Diaspora(s)?

  • @jewishlanguageproject

    @jewishlanguageproject

    11 ай бұрын

    There are many languages of the Jewish Diaspora(s). You can learn more on our website: www.jewishlanguages.org/

  • @busterbiloxi3833

    @busterbiloxi3833

    5 ай бұрын

    Let’s hear it for Yiddish!

  • @celtiberian07
    @celtiberian075 ай бұрын

    Being part Jewish I always wondered what languages some of my ancestors spoke I mean they didn't start out speaking Yiddish or Russian they must have spoke Greek and or Aramaic at one time maybe even Persian languages who knows

  • @gulbahar4993

    @gulbahar4993

    4 ай бұрын

    Forschen sie nach das ist sehr wichtig

  • @dvirgameworld4917
    @dvirgameworld4917Ай бұрын

    Where can I find the birthday song?

  • @danderino2024
    @danderino202420 күн бұрын

    As a Jew, I LOVE THE ASSYRIANS! My best friend is Assyrian ❤

  • @lishanaassyrianaramit6933
    @lishanaassyrianaramit69337 ай бұрын

    Aramit (Jewish Aramaic) speakers, Jews from the land of Assyria (Isaiah 27:13), have nothing to do with the Kurds, neither in language, nor in religion, nor in ethnicity, nor in culture, nor in land. The Kurdish conquerors made every effort to exterminate the Aramaic language in the occupied land of Assyria. The only non-Jewish nation that speaks Aramaic is the Assyrian nation. The Jews are related to the Assyrians, Chaldeans and Syrians in the Aramit-Ashurit (Assyrian Aramaic) language, of Semitic origin, and belief in the Bible. That is why this video distorts reality and tells the public a story that did not exist in the Jewish history. The real story can be found in Dr. Yaacov Maoz's book, "Jerusalem and Nineveh" in Hebrew. It will be released soon also in an English edition. Long live Assyria and long live Israel! In that day shall Israel בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא יִהְיֶה יִשְׂרָאֵל be the third with Egypt and with Assyria שְׁלִישִׁיָּה לְמִצְרַיִם וּלְאַשּׁוּר a blessing in the midst of the earth בְּרָכָה בְּקֶרֶב הָאָרֶץ. for that the LORD of hosts hath blessed him, saying: אֲשֶׁר בֵּרֲכוֹ ה' צְבָאוֹת לֵאמֹר: Blessed be Egypt My people בָּרוּךְ עַמִּי מִצְרַיִם and Assyria the work of My hands וּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדַי אַשּׁוּר and Israel Mine inheritance וְנַחֲלָתִי יִשְׂרָאֵל (ישעיה יט כד-כה).

  • @patrikstar8466

    @patrikstar8466

    3 ай бұрын

    These people YOU call Assyrian have NOTHING to do with Assyrians. They were Aramaic speaking Nestorian Christians, were called Aramaic, who got labelled "Assyrian" by Britian in WWI to fight for them against Ottomans and theh DID so. Britain used them, Renamed them. Still other Aramaic Chrisrians NEVER accept them as "Assyrian". Assyrians spoke AKKADIAN, not Aramaic, and DIED OUT in 612 BC. GO ignorant one, read the book: "Arameans and the Making of Assyrian". This self-proclaimed " new Assyrian" delusional people are Not Assyrians, never been and will Never be. Go mind your own business and dont follow the words of some LOSER Pizza sellers in Europe.

  • @Al-Shaheedi
    @Al-ShaheediАй бұрын

    Aramaic originated from Syria so those dialects in Iraq are Assyrian influenced or a hybrid between other languages

  • @elie8235
    @elie82352 жыл бұрын

    Assyrian aramic

  • @Holy_Oracles_2

    @Holy_Oracles_2

    2 жыл бұрын

    POWERFUL TESTIMONY THATS DEEPER ONCE JESUS REVEAL WHY I SPOKE IN ARAMAIC TONGUE. IN 2018 I WAS IN A SATANIC PSYCH WARD PRISON. AND I WAS ON THE LINE WAITING TO GET THEIR DRUGS FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH. I KEPT REPEATING #LAHKMA #LAHKMA. SOMEONE IN LINE SAID IM SPEAKING CHALDEAN LANGUAGE. AND SAID I SAID BEVERAGE. I BELIEVED HIM BCUZ I WAS THIRSTY AND MOUTH WAS DRY. AS IF I WAS IN THE DESERT WITH NO WATER. SO I WENT ON KZread YEARS LATER AND SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS ARAMAIC THAT WAS A CHALDEAN SAID. I REALLY SAID BREAD NOT WATER. HERE'S SOME BIBLE SCRIPTURES PERTAINING TO BREAD. John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the #bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. John 6:48-51 48 I am that #bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the #bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living #bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this #bread, he shall live for ever: and the #bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world

  • @Holy_Oracles_2

    @Holy_Oracles_2

    2 жыл бұрын

    IS THAT JUST ASSYRIAN PEOPLE WHO SPEAK ARAMAIC LIKE CHALDEANS WHO SPEAK THAT LANGUAGE

  • @ashur3504

    @ashur3504

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Holy_Oracles_2 Chaldean is not a different ethnicity or whatevers in fact the word Chaldean isn't even in our language it's Latin Greek meaning astronomers in biblical aramiac and Hebrew it's kshedim or shide literally meaning demon's They speak as well obviously but it's heavily influenced by Arabic unlike Assyrians from South turkey

  • @betnahrain6459

    @betnahrain6459

    Жыл бұрын

    Assyrian/Chaldeans and Syriacs are one people who speak the Aramaic language. There are other people Like the jews or the mandeans that speak neo-aramaic Dialects too...

  • @elie8235

    @elie8235

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Holy_Oracles_2 Syriac is a hybrid between Akkadian and Aramaic

  • @Shaheen_Hassan
    @Shaheen_Hassan2 жыл бұрын

    What's the name of the Aramaic song in the beginning?

  • @jewishlanguageproject

    @jewishlanguageproject

    2 жыл бұрын

    Leil Shab'ta by Adi Kadussi kzread.info/dash/bejne/o5WCtLxrfbnbqNo.html

  • @Holy_Oracles_2

    @Holy_Oracles_2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jewishlanguageproject POWERFUL TESTIMONY THATS DEEPER ONCE JESUS REVEAL WHY I SPOKE IN ARAMAIC TONGUE. IN 2018 I WAS IN A SATANIC PSYCH WARD PRISON. AND I WAS ON THE LINE WAITING TO GET THEIR DRUGS FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH. I KEPT REPEATING #LAHKMA #LAHKMA. SOMEONE IN LINE SAID IM SPEAKING CHALDEAN LANGUAGE. AND SAID I SAID BEVERAGE. I BELIEVED HIM BCUZ I WAS THIRSTY AND MOUTH WAS DRY. AS IF I WAS IN THE DESERT WITH NO WATER. SO I WENT ON KZread YEARS LATER AND SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS ARAMAIC THAT WAS A CHALDEAN SAID. I REALLY SAID BREAD NOT WATER. HERE'S SOME BIBLE SCRIPTURES PERTAINING TO BREAD. John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the #bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. John 6:48-51 48 I am that #bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the #bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living #bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this #bread, he shall live for ever: and the #bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world

  • @Shaheen_Hassan

    @Shaheen_Hassan

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jewishlanguageproject Thanks.

  • @busterbiloxi3833

    @busterbiloxi3833

    5 ай бұрын

    Jumping Jack Flash.

  • @otomazra7306
    @otomazra7306 Жыл бұрын

    Assyrian

  • @busterbiloxi3833

    @busterbiloxi3833

    5 ай бұрын

    Ebonics!

  • @Suleyman-hf9rk

    @Suleyman-hf9rk

    Ай бұрын

    @@busterbiloxi3833sikim

  • @philotaaveti
    @philotaaveti7 ай бұрын

    it is my understanding that Aramaic was more elite then ordinary Hebrew anyone have a response?

  • @y.l7455

    @y.l7455

    5 ай бұрын

    Back in the days(2,000+ years ago) Aramaic in the Middle East was like English to the whole world today.

  • @philotaaveti

    @philotaaveti

    5 ай бұрын

    @@y.l7455 zephaniah 3:9?

  • @lavender5765
    @lavender576523 күн бұрын

    Erbil = Erbael , Arbaa or four ,Eil meaning the Lord of four, Lord of Assyria, the four directions or elements. Now Arbailao is occupied by the Persian Kurds.

  • @andrewstaples7544
    @andrewstaples75445 ай бұрын

    The language jesus spoke

  • @amirferdhany3177

    @amirferdhany3177

    2 ай бұрын

    Not quite, biblical Arahmaic is slightly different from their dialect

  • @sonarbangla8711
    @sonarbangla87117 ай бұрын

    Hebrew was reconstructed when it was found to have parallel with Arabic. Else the language was lost.

  • @user-ut2ii7mw1p

    @user-ut2ii7mw1p

    4 ай бұрын

    Rabbis always studied Tanach, Mishnah, wrote books and prayed daily in Hebrew. You don't know what you are talking about.

  • @assyrianbetnahrian9574
    @assyrianbetnahrian9574 Жыл бұрын

    Its surat assyrian language and gas nothing to do with no Kurdish.and the people in zakho mix assyrian with Arabic..your facts are wrong. Sorry and stop saying Kurdish..only the people that were scared to say assyrian so they said Kurdish not to get killed by the Kurds so 89 years later they think they are kurdy but they are not ....and lisha deain means our language in assyrian .its not a language it's just words in assyrian

  • @BM-wo6wf

    @BM-wo6wf

    Жыл бұрын

    My grandparents are jews from Zakho. And we are kurds! We have a big kurdish-jewish community and never once have anyone mentioned Assyrian.

  • @assyrianbetnahrian9574

    @assyrianbetnahrian9574

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BM-wo6wf your religion has nothing to do with your nation you also have Muslim Kurds it means nothing..and I know you know I know that you know exactly what and who assyrians are .....

  • @roses.4684

    @roses.4684

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BM-wo6wf ok mshlmana

  • @saroyleveling

    @saroyleveling

    11 ай бұрын

    @@BM-wo6wf If you are Kurdish why are you not speaking Kurmanci/Sorani but you're speaking Lishan deni, you're speaking OUR language which is Assyrian!

  • @mehmetdereroberer5553

    @mehmetdereroberer5553

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@assyrianbetnahrian9574these are Kurds and the language is kurdish .assyrians are kurdish Christians..

  • @little_petra_jordanian
    @little_petra_jordanian6 ай бұрын

    Jordanian Aramaic 🇯🇴❤ܐܪܡܝܐ

  • @busterbiloxi3833

    @busterbiloxi3833

    5 ай бұрын

    Mongolian Aramaic!

  • @condor237
    @condor237 Жыл бұрын

    10 lost tribes became Kurdish Israelites

  • @axxoaxxo3416

    @axxoaxxo3416

    6 ай бұрын

    I urge you not to insult the Semites, can’t say that about the kurds though 😁

  • @rrtvox

    @rrtvox

    6 ай бұрын

    It’s only considered Kurdish because that was the latest nation to occupy that region but in actuality the lost tribes you speak of were technically in Assyria.

  • @mehmetdereroberer5553
    @mehmetdereroberer55539 ай бұрын

    Chaldeans nestorians arameans are Kurdish christians

  • @denkoxh8610

    @denkoxh8610

    6 ай бұрын

    Assyrians/Chaldeans are genetically different to Kurdish people

  • @rrtvox

    @rrtvox

    6 ай бұрын

    People seem to confuse Kurdish region which was once Assyria with the actual ethnicity of Kurdistan. That is completely different from the Assyrians. However they inhabited the similar area so that’s why people get confused or mix it up.

  • @mujemoabraham6522

    @mujemoabraham6522

    3 ай бұрын

    @@denkoxh8610 To which Haplogroup belongs ?