Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
[también conocido como Sôreth, Hértevin, севернобохтанский язык]Clasificación: Afro-Asiatic
·en grave peligro de extinción
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En grave peligro de extinción
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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<500
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"The total number of speakers of the Bohtan dialect is very difficult to estimate but it is probably less than 500."
- TRANSMISIÓN
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- MÁS SOBRE LA VITALIDAD
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"The younger generations speak the language less, and less proficiently."
- OTRAS LENGUAS UTILIZADAS POR LA COMUNIDAD
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Russian
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Azeri Turkish
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Meskhetian Turkish
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Swabian German
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Kurdish
- COMENTARIOS SOBRE CONTEXTO DE LA LENGUA
"A great degree of bi- and multilingualism characterizes practically all speakers of [Neo-Aramaic varieties, including Bohtan]. Certain features of the dialect betray contact with Arabic at some period in the past. [In Bohtan, they] did speak Kurdish, a language which has left a very strong imprint on the dialect. In Azerbaijan they learned a certain amount of the Swabian German of the founders of the villages where they lived, in addition to Russian and Azeri Turkish. Those who live in Krymsk frequently spoke Turkish with the members of the Meskhetian Turkish minority who were their neighbors there for some years. Currently, Russian is the only other language spoken by all Bohtan Assyrians."
- LUGARES
- Russia
- DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA UBICACIÓN
"[Originally spoken] within the present-day Turkish province of Siirt, [in] the district of Bohtan... The Bohtan Assyrians now live mostly in two towns on the northern fringes of the Caucasus: Krymsk in the Krasnodarskiy Kray, and Novopavlovsk in the Stavropolskiy Kray. In general, the inhabitants of Ruma and Šwata settled in Ağstafa, from there moved to Gardabani, and now live in Novopavlovsk, while the inhabitants of Borb settled in Xanlar and now live in Krymsk... Only a very few Bohtan speakers live outside the former Soviet Union."