Christian Neo-Aramaic dialect of Barwar

Barwar Neo-Aramaic
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Eastern Aramaic Northeastern Barwar Neo-Aramaic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Barwar Christian Neo-Aramaic is a dialect of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic spoken by ethnic Assyrians in the Barwari region of Iraq and Turkey.

Phonology

Consonants^[1]

		Labial	Dental / alveolar	Palatoalveolar	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Laryngeal
Stops / affricates	Unvoiced aspirated	pʰ	tʰ	tʃʰ	kʰ	qʰ		ʔ
	Unaspirated	p	t	tʃ	k
	Voiced	b	d	dʒ	g
	Emphatic	pˤ	tˤ	tʃˤ
Fricatives	Unvoiced	f	s, θ	ʃ	x		ħ	h
	Voiced	w	z, ð	ʒ	ɣ
	Emphatic		sˤ, zˤ
Nasal		m, mˤ	n
Lateral			l, lˤ
Rhotic			ɾ, r
Approximant		w		j

References

1. Khan 2009, p. 29.

Sources

• Khan, Geoffrey (2009). The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Barwar. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-16765-0.