The Northern Bohtan language (Hertevin; Hértevin) is one of the New Aramaic languages , spoken earlier in the south-east of Turkey , in the north of the historical region of Bohtan . The most famous is the dialect of the village of Artuvin (Hertevin), which gave one of the names to the whole language. This village was part of a group of several villages located near the town of Pervari in the east of Siirt province. Other dialects of this language are known from other villages in the same province: Eruh (Deh), Azir, Tahram, Shirvan, Zokayit, Bakent and from the village of Achkanis in the west of the neighboring province of Van .
| Northern Bokhtan language | |
|---|---|
| Self name | ܣܘܪܬ Sôreth / ˈsorɛθ / |
| Countries | Turkey → Georgia , Russia , Germany |
| Regions | northern bohtan |
| Total number of speakers | 1 thousand people (SIL 1994) |
| Status | vanishing |
| Classification | |
| Category | Languages of Eurasia |
Afrasian macro family
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| Language Codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | hrt |
| Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
| Ethnologue | |
| IETF | |
| Glottolog | |
The native speakers are Christians and belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church .
Content
- 1 Classification
- 2 Research History
- 3 List of villages
- 4 See also
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
- 7 References
Classification
The North Bohtan language is included in the grouping of the northeastern New Aramaic languages , however, it occupies a separate place there, differing most strongly from all other languages. Northern Bohtansky shares some features with the neighboring Aramaic language of the Turoyo, which is not included in the northeastern group.
Research History
Modern science of Severobohtansky is known mainly from two sources.
The Hertevin dialect was discovered by Otto Jastrow in 1970 in their traditional place of residence, and two years later he published the first description of this dialect. Later, almost all the villagers left, mainly moved to the West, although it is possible that some carriers may still remain in Hertevin.
Other surviving carriers of this dialect were discovered in the village of Gardabani ( Georgia ), where they moved from the Azerbaijan in the 1950s, and in turn they fled from Turkey during the Assyrian genocide , from the villages of Ruma, Shvat and Borb, located near Hertevin Village. His description was published by Samuel Fox in 2002. Although Fox himself explicitly writes that the described dialect is very close to Hertevinsky, in Ethnologue these two varieties of virtually the same language are included under different inputs without any reference to each other.
According to JCJ Sanders, until recently, the Assyrian population lived in at least 10 villages in the Sarhal River Valley: Artuvin, Yukhary-Artuvin, Fakiran, Rabenukyan, Serkhal, Rubar, Mages, Hekedan, Keveryuk, Guinne , Kilis and Simana. In 1994, the inhabitants of these villages were forcibly resettled and many of them left the country.
List of villages
- Artuvin (Hertevin; Hértevin / 'hɛrtəvən /, tour: Ekindüzü, Hertvinler / Artvan , Kurd. Härtəvən )
- Ruma
- Shvata
- Borb
- Umraya
- Jinet (Jinet, tour: Bağpınar, Cinit / Cennet )
- Berinci
- Yukarı diran
In the southern part of historical Bohtan (now Shirnak province) there were also many Assyrian villages, but the speech of their inhabitants was mainly related to the northern dialects of the southwestern Christian-Aramaic language .
See also
- Northeastern New Aramaic
- Syriac language
Notes
Literature
- Lyavdansky A.K. New Aramaic Languages // World Languages: Semitic Languages. Akkadian language. Northwest Semitic languages. M., "Academia", 2009.
- Jastrow, Otto. Der neuaramäische Dialekt von Hertevin (Province Siirt) . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988. ISBN 3-447-02767-3
- Jastrow, Otto. Personal and Demonstrative pronouns in Central Neo-Aramaic // Wolfhart Heinrichs (Ed.), Studies in Neo-Aramaic, pp. 89-103. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1990. ISBN 1-55540-430-8 .
- Fox, Samuel Ethan. A Neo-Aramaic dialect of Bohtan // W. Arnold and H. Bobzin (eds.), “Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!” 60 Beiträge zur Semitistik. Festschrift für Otto Jastrow zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002, pp. 165-180.
- Sanders, J. Assyrian - Chaldean Christians in Eastern Turkey and Iran; their last homeland re-charted (inaccessible link) . 1999. ISBN 90-90-13410-7
- Tfinkdji J. L'église chaldéenne catholique autrefois et aujourd'hui // Annuaire Pontifical Catholique, 17 (1914), 449-525.
Links
- Northern Bohtan (Hertevinian dialect) in Ethnologue. Languages of the World .
- Northern Bohtan language (Gardaban dialect) in Ethnologue. Languages of the World .