Also Known As:
Sôreth, Hértevin, севернобохтанский язык, Hertevince
Dialects & Varieties
The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Bohtan
Samuel Fox. 2009. "The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Bohtan." Gorgias Press.
Severely Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<500
Native Speakers Worldwide
Transmission
Transmission 4
Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.
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Speakers
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Comments on speakers
"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."
Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
"[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."
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian, Azeri Turkish, Meskhetian Turkish, Swabian German, Kurdish
Number of Other Language Speakers:
Almost all
Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
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Recent Resources
This text shows grammatical differences between the distinct North Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects.