Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East

Project Information

ALHOME

Grant agreement ID: 101021183

DOI

10.3030/101021183

Project closed

EC signature date 20 July 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 997 800,00

EU contribution

€ 1 997 800,00

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THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Monographic books (9)

Shamdinani Stories I

Author(s): David N. MacKenzie; Ergin Opengin;
Published in: Brill Kurdish Studies, 2026, ISBN 9789004754430
Publisher: Brill

"""Cumhuriyet ve Kürtçe"" in Kürtler ve Cumhuriyet"

Author(s): Ayhan Işık; Gülay Kılıçaslan; Behzat Hiroğlu; Kübra Sağır and Çağrı Kurt, Ergin Opengin
Published in: 2024, Page(s) 855-862, ISBN 9786256742000
Publisher: Dipnot

Echoes of the past: Hewramî narratives

Author(s): Masoud Mohammadirad
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-3-96110-542-7
Publisher: Berlin: Language Science Press

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of the Jews of DohokA Comparative-Typological Grammar

Author(s): Dorota Molin
Published in: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Issue 112, 2024, ISBN 978-90-04-69057-8
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004690578

Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern IraqA Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 2

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan, Masoud Mohammadirad, Dorota Molin, Paul M. Noorlander, contributions by Lourd Habeeb Hanna, Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari, Salim Abraham,
Published in: CAMBRIDGE SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, Issue Book Series: Semitic Languages and Cultures vol. 12, 2022, ISBN 978-1-80064-769-5
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0307

Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish

Author(s): Ergin Opengin, Geoffrey Haig
Published in: Springer Nature Link, Issue 1, 2023, ISBN 978-3-030-78836-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78837-7

Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern IraqA Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 1

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan, Masoud Mohammadirad, Dorota Molin, Paul M. Noorlander, contributions by Lourd Habeeb Hanna, Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari, Salim Abraham,
Published in: CAMBRIDGE SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND CULTURES, Issue Book Series: Semitic Languages and Cultures vol. 12, 2022, ISBN 978-1-80064-766-4
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0306

Language Contact in Sanandaj. A Study of the Impact of Iranian on Neo-Aramaic

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan, Masoud Mohammadirad
Published in: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB], Issue 32, 2023, ISBN 9783111205786
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
DOI: 10.1515/9783111209180

A grammar of Hewramî

Author(s): Masoud Mohammadirad
Published in: 2025, ISBN 978-3-96110-543-4
Publisher: Berlin: Language Science Press

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Narrative verbal forms in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan
Published in: Journal of Semitic Studies, Issue Volume 69, Issue 1,, 2024, Page(s) 205–230, ISSN 0022-4480
Publisher: University of Manchester
DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgad037

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Interdental consonants in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan
Published in: International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies, Issue Vol 27: No.2, 2023, Page(s) 83-92, ISSN 1825-263X
Publisher: Kervan
DOI: 10.13135/1825-263x/8225

Principles of Ritual Prayer: An 18th Century Catechism in Bahdini Kurdish

Author(s): Ergin Öpengin
Published in: Oriente Moderno, Issue 103, 2024, Page(s) 357-383, ISSN 0030-5472
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/22138617-12340317

The development of imperfective and subjunctive marking in Hewramî

Author(s): Masoud Mohammadirad, Shuan Osman Karim
Published in: Linguistics, Issue 63, 2025, Page(s) 1265-1292, ISSN 0024-3949
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/ling-2023-0247

Intransitive clause word order in Neo-Aramaic: information structure, pragmatics and word order shifts

Author(s): Dorota Molin
Published in: Folia Linguistica, Issue 59, 2025, Page(s) 633-672, ISSN 0165-4004
Publisher: The Hague Mouton
DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2051

The Neo-Aramaic Dialect Spoken by the Christians of Marga (Şirnak, Southeastern Turkey)

Author(s): Paul M Noorlander
Published in: Journal of Semitic Studies, Issue 68, 2023, Page(s) 199-233, ISSN 0022-4480
Publisher: University of Manchester
DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgac025

Lenition of voiced stops in Kurdish

Author(s): Masoud Mohammadirad, Ergin Öpengin
Published in: Folia Linguistica, Issue 59, 2025, Page(s) 71-101, ISSN 0165-4004
Publisher: The Hague Mouton
DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2049

Contact-Induced Change in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialects

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan
Published in: Journal of Jewish Languages, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 13-26, ISSN 2213-4387
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/22134638-bja10036

Between VO and OV in Arabic and Aramaic

Author(s): Paul M. Noorlander, Dorota Molin, Geoffrey Haig
Published in: Studies in Language, Issue 49, 2025, Page(s) 289-336, ISSN 0378-4177
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1075/sl.24027.noo

“This Tribute by an Irishman”

Author(s): Ergin Öpengin, Adnan Çelik
Published in: Kurdish Studies Journal, 2024, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 2950-2306
Publisher: Kurdish Studies Journal
DOI: 10.1163/29502292-00202001

The typology of verbal person/number syncretism in Western Iranic languages

Author(s): Masoud Mohammadirad Shuan Osman Karim
Published in: Language Dynamics and Change, Issue 15,1, 2025, Page(s) 1–87, ISSN 2210-5832
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-bja10038

The Bible in the Aramaic Bowls: Between Memorization, Orality, and Writtenness

Author(s): Dorota Molin
Published in: Journal of Biblical Literature, Issue 142, 2024, Page(s) 609-631, ISSN 0021-9231
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1424.2023.4

Gorani substrate within Kurdish

Author(s): Masoud Mohammadirad
Published in: Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2024, ISSN 2210-2116
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/jhl.23001.moh

Book chapters (14)

33. Mirza Muhammad and the Three Princesses

Author(s): Paul M. Noorlander
Published in: Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq, 2025, Page(s) 493-504
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0307.30

"""Neo-Aramaic in Iran and northeastern Iraq"" in Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology"

Author(s): Paul Noorlander
Published in: 2024, Page(s) Chapter 15, ISBN 978-3-96110-492-5
Publisher: Berlin: Language Science Press

3. Narrative Style and Discourse in Kurdish and Neo-Aramaic Oral Literature

Author(s): Paul M. Noorlander, Masoud Mohammadirad
Published in: Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq, 2025, Page(s) 85-156
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0306.03

1. Introduction to a Comparative Corpus of Oral Literature

Author(s): Paul M. Noorlander, Dorota Molin
Published in: Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq, 2025, Page(s) 1-34
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0306.01

Vowel Harmony in Semitic Languages

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony, 2024, Page(s) 593-602, ISBN 9780198826804
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198826804.013.47

"""Arabic and Aramaic in eastern Anatolia"" in Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology"

Author(s): Paul Noorlander
Published in: 2024, Page(s) Chapter 16, ISBN 978-3-96110-492-5
Publisher: Berlin: Language Science Press

Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan, Masoud Mohammadirad
Published in: 2024, ISBN 9783111168852
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111168852

"""Which word order features are stable in a contact setting? Corpus-based evidence from the Western Asian Transition Zone"" in Language Contact: An international Handbook. Volume 2."

Author(s): Main Authors, Jeroen Darquennes, Joe Salmons, Wim Vandenbussche Chapter Authors: Geoffrey Haig, Paul Noorlander, Nils Schiborr
Published in: 2025, Page(s) 159-184, ISBN 9783110443011
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton

5 Gorani influence on NENA

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan, Masoud Mohammadirad
Published in: Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context, Issue 41, 2024, Page(s) 171-198, ISBN 9783111168852
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111168852-005

"""Post-predicate arguments in Modern Eastern Armenian"" in Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology"

Author(s): Katherine Hodgson, Victoria Khurshudyan, Pollet Samvelian
Published in: 2024, Page(s) Chapter 13, ISBN 978-3-96110-492-5
Publisher: Berlin: Language Science Press

Suprasegmental emphasis in the Mawana dialect of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic

Author(s): Geoffrey Khan
Published in: Der Perlentaucher. Festschrift für Stefan Weninger zu seinem 65. Geburtstag am 6. August 2024, 2024, Page(s) 179-188, ISBN 978-3-447-12233-7
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden

"""Zagros region - The Kurdish-Gorani Continuum"" in Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology"

Author(s): Masoud Mohammadirad, Geoffrey Haig, Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand, Donald Stilo, Laurentia Schreiber, Nils Schiborr,
Published in: 2024, Page(s) Chapter 9, ISBN 978-3-96110-492-5
Publisher: Berlin: Language Science Press
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14185541

Selected Studies in Ancient Language Lexicography, Linguistics and Translation

Author(s): Anne Gardner, Anne Thompson, Beryl Turner, Paul Noorlander
Published in: Perspectives on Linguistics and Ancient Languages, Issue Vol 14, 2025, Page(s) 219-254, ISBN 9781463245863
Publisher: Gorgias Press
DOI: 10.31826/9781463245863

Pronominal Clitics Across Kurdish: Areal Distribution, Structural Variation, and Diachrony

Author(s): Ergin Öpengin, Masoud Mohammadirad
Published in: Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish, 2023, Page(s) 181-237, ISBN 978-3-030-78836-0
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78837-7_5

Other (1)

WOWA — The Word Order in Western Asia Corpus

Author(s): Geoffrey Haig, Donald Stilo, Mahir Dogan, Nils Norman Schiborr, Datasets, Katherine Hodgson
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
DOI: 10.48564/unibafd-gyws0-g4218