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Lishana Deni is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called ''Neo-Aramaic'' or ''Judeo-Aramaic''. It was originally spoken in the town of Zakho and its surrounding villages in northern Iraq, on the border with Turkey. Most speakers now live in and around Jerusalem. Speakers are ethnic Assyrians and the language is occasionally considered to be a dialect of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. The name ''Lishana Deni'' means 'our language', and is similar to names used by other Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects (Lishan Didan, Lishanid Noshan). Other popular names for the language are ''Lishan Hozaye'', 'the language of the Jews', and ''Kurdit'', 'Kurdish'. Scholarly sources tend simply to refer to Lishana Deni as ''Zakho Jewish Neo-Aramaic''. == Origins == Various Neo-Aramaic dialects were spoken across a wide area from the Zakho region, in the west, to Lake Urmia, in the northeast to Sanandaj, in the southeast (the area covers northern Iraq and northwestern Iran). The upheavals in their traditional region after the First World War and the founding of the State of Israel led most of the Jews of Kurdistan to move to Jerusalem and villages nearby. However, uprooted from northern Iraq, and thrown together with so many different language groups in the fledgling nation, Lishana Deni began to be replaced in the speech of younger generations by Modern Hebrew. Fewer than 8,000 people are known to speak Lishana Deni, and all of them are over 50 years old. Lishana Deni is written in the Hebrew alphabet it is also used be written Syriac alphabet. Spelling tends to be highly phonetic, and elided letters are not written. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lishana Deni」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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