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Lishán Didán is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called ''Neo-Aramaic'' or ''Judeo-Aramaic''. It was originally spoken in Iranian Azerbaijan, in the region of Lake Urmia, from Salmas to Mahabad. Most speakers now live in Israel. The name ''Lishán Didán'' means 'our language'; other variations are ''Lishanán'', 'our-language', and ''Lishanid Nash Didán'', 'the language of our selves'. As this causes some confusion with similarly named dialects (Lishana Deni, Lishanid Noshan), scholarly sources tend simply to use a more descriptive name, like ''Persian Azerbaijani Jewish Neo-Aramaic''. To distinguish it from other dialects of Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Lishán Didán is sometimes called ''Lakhlokhi'' (literally 'to-you(f)-to-you(m)') or ''Galihalu'' ('mine-yours'), demonstrating different use of prepositions and pronominal suffixes. Lishán Didán is written in the Hebrew alphabet. Spelling tends to be highly phonetic, and elided letters are not written. == Origin== Various Neo-Aramaic dialects were spoken across a wide area from Lake Urmia to Lake Van (in Turkey), down to the plain of Mosul (in Iraq) and back across to Sanandaj (in Iran again). There are two major dialect clusters of Lishán Didán. The northern cluster of dialects centred on Urmia and Salmas in West Azarbaijan, and extended into the Jewish villages of the Turkish province of Van. The southern cluster of dialects was focused on the town of Mahabad and villages just south of Lake Urmia. The dialects of the two clusters are intelligible to one another, and most of the differences are due to receiving loanwords from different languages: Persian, Kurdish and Turkish languages especially. The upheavals in their traditional region after the Second World War and the founding of the State of Israel led most of the Azerbaijani Jews to settle in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and villages in various parts of the country. However, uprooted from their homes, and thrown together with so many different language groups in the fledgling nation, Lishán Didán began to be replaced in the speech of younger generations by Modern Hebrew. Fewer than 5,000 people are known to speak Lishán Didan, and most of them are over 50 years old. The language faces extinction in the next few decades. 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「Lishán Didán」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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