Hértevin language

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• Afro-Asiatic languages Semitic languages West Semitic languages Aramaic Ostaramäisch Nordostaramäisch Hertevin

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Hertevin is a neuaramäische language, which belongs to the Northeastern branch of the Ostaramäischen (see Aramaic languages). It was originally spoken Hertevin and some surrounding villages in Siirt province in southeastern Turkey in the resort. Most speakers - traditionally Chaldean Catholics - have emigrated in the wake of persecution and displacement of the Aramaic Christians in the 20th century and live scattered in many Western countries. Only a few have remained in Turkey. The total number of speakers is estimated at 1,000.

Special linguistic features

The place Hertevin, near the town Pervari in the province of Siirt, located on the northeastern edge of the ostaramäischen language area, the Hertevin language is thus a peripheral nordostaramäisches idiom that is in some ways different from the related languages ​​( Chaldean Neuaramäisch, Assyrian - Neuaramäisch ) has developed. So Hertevin shares some features with the Turoyo, a nordwestaramäischen language from the Mardin province.

Hertevin was not until 1970 that "discovered" by the German Otto Jastrow Semitists and two years later described in a publication. A phonetic feature is the loss of the velar voiceless fricative / x /, the. Using the voiceless pharyngeal fricative / ħ / coincided In all other neuostaramäischen languages ​​, the development was exactly the opposite: the voiceless fricative pharyngale coincided with the velar voiceless fricative.

Another feature is the expression of the demonstrative. Although falls as in the other languages ​​ostaramäischen the local and Ferndemonstrativum ( " this " or "that" ) together, Hertevin but has also developed an emphatic form of the pronoun that means " just this one " has.

All Hertevin Speakers are bilingual in Kurdish ( Kurmanji ). For the case of Hertevin the Syrian alphabet is used, but there are no periodicals and hardly any literature. As a church, the classical Syriac language used.