1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Genus: Semitic

Neo-Aramaic (Arbel Jewish)

WALS coordinates: 31° 45′ N, 35° E

spoken in Israel

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Aramaic
Routledge:
  • Aramaic
Other:
  • Aramaic (Arbel Jewish),
  • Arbili Neo Aramaic,
  • Neo-Aramaic (Arbel),
  • Arbel Jewish Aramaic
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Fixed Stress Locations Penultimate
Weight-Sensitive Stress Fixed stress (no weight-sensitivity)
Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems No weight
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Definite Articles Definite affix
Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one'
Position of Case Affixes Prepositional clitics
Numeral Classifiers Absent
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
Nominal Syntax
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses Genitives and relative clauses collapsed
Adjectives without Nouns Marked by preceding word
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb OV
Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb OVX
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only