Oliver, thank you for the effort and thank to prof. Bennett for the detailed analysis!
I think we should mark this proposal as eligible. As Oliver sent this clarification today, I am resetting the starting time to today + 7 days for eligibility decision. On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Oliver Stegen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > I've received a lengthy answer from Patrick R Bennett (Principal of the The > Jerome Institute, and Prof. Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison) > who is the main linguistic consultant of the Aramaic Bible translation > project in the U.S., with translations into five language varieties. > > He starts with a disclaimer: "I will talk here only about the Christian > Modern Aramaic – the Jewish Modern Aramaic is another thing altogether, and > I am not at all sure of the present status of Modern Mandaic." > So, Amir, you may want to continue your search for an Aramaic language > expert in Israel. > > Prof Bennett then continues to distinguish four languages varieties: > > Maaluli (Modern Western Aramaic) > Suryoyo / Turoyo > Chaldean > Assyrian > > (He has longer explanation on each variety but I'll spare you the details > unless you insist me posting them here.) > To cut a long story short, he thinks that, in addition to Syriac which > represents a classical proto-language (like Latin for Spanish, Italian etc), > "for Suryoyo/Turoyo, Chaldean, and Assyrian there can be a case for > independent wikipedias. [...] I do not think Chaldean and Assyrian can > productively be combined – there are too many lexical and morphological > differences." > > On scripts, Prof Bennett suggests the following (NB: the Syriac wikipedia is > written in Western Syriac script): > > Suryoyo – Western Syriac script > Chaldean – Arabic script > Assyrian – Eastern Syriac script > > Again, I can forward more details from his original post, if necessary. He > closes with "I hope this helps. More detail and further discussion of course > can be provided if desired." > > Fwiw, > Oliver > > On 24-Jan-17 12:50, Oliver Stegen wrote: > > I've contacted the Aramaic BT team > (http://www.aramaicbible.org/our-team.html) two of whom I know personally. > I'll let you know when they respond on the question of dialect (i.e. > possibly combinable into arc:wp) vs language (i.e. probably needing a > distinct wp). > > Fwiw, > Oliver > > > On 19-Jan-17 16:13, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > > Maybe, I can think of a couple of names. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 2017-01-19 7:06 GMT-08:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Amir E. Aharoni >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So we need an expert. >> >> Anyone in Israel? I mean, Israel seems to me like a good place to >> search for an expert in Aramaic languages. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
