| Language name: | NEO-ARAMAIC |
| UPSID number: | 4355 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic |
| This language has | 40 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.329323725 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b tD dD k g q f B s z S Z X RF h tS dZ j m r[ l i "e a "o u i9 "e9 a9 "o9 u9 i: a: u: i9: a9: u9: nD ? |
| Comment: | Vowel length may be largely predictable. Garbell describes a contrast between 'flat' and 'plain' words and syllables. In 'flat' items all consonants are, inter alia, pharyngealized. This has been interpreted as a vowel-harmony type of process with pharyngealization as a contrastive property of vowels. |
| Source(s): | Garbell, I. 1965. The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Peralan, Azerbaijan. Mouton, The Hague. |