Grammaire juhuri, ou judeo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l'est

Grammaire juhuri, ou judeo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l'est

by Gilles Authier
Grammaire juhuri, ou judeo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l'est

Grammaire juhuri, ou judeo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l'est

by Gilles Authier

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Overview

Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), the language of the so-called "Mountain Jews" of Daghestan and Azerbaijan, belongs to the Caucasian Tat group of South-Western Iranian. Its Iranian heritage, reflected by noteworthy archaisms, constitutes an important component of the language, but Juhuri has also been under the influence of Turkic and indigenous Caucasian languages since it arrived in the Caucasus more than a millenium ago. Owing to its unique history as the language of an Iranian Jewish community in the Caucasus, Juhuri exhibits many unusual and typologically rather remarkable characteristics. The book, based on written sources complemented by the author's fieldwork, offers a comprehensive description of the language, each feature illustrated by numerous example sentences, and concludes with sample texts and a full glossary.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783895009358
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag
Publication date: 02/19/2013
Series: Beitrage zur Iranistik , #36
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 610,804
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)
Language: French

About the Author

Contributor Biography - French Gilles Authierne en 1967 a Paris, est chercheur et maitre de conferences, habilite a diriger les recherches, a l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisation Orientales de Paris (INALCO). Il est specialiste des langues du Caucase de l'est (Azerbaidjan et Daghestan), qu'elles soient indigenes ou turciques et iraniennes, et de la grammaire comparee des langues caucasiques de l'est. Son approche, prenant appui sur la typologie generale des langues est essentiellement descriptive, sous forme de grammaires completes de langues jusqu'a present tres peu documentees ou decrites.

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