Gli Assiri di Tehran: un profilo sociolinguistico

Harir Sherkat

doi:10.13135/1825-263X/3312

Harir Sherkat University of Turin

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/3312

Keywords: Assiri, neo-aramaico, sociolinguistica, Iran

Abstract

The Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Urmi is drastically losing its speakers who abandoned their villages of origin as a consequence of the tragic events of the last century. This article is a result of the fieldwork conducted by the author in 2012 in Tehran, with the purpose of examining the vitality of this endangered Neo-Aramaic variety in Iran, more specifically in the capital city, where since the 4th decades of the 20th century a large community of Assyrians is found. The author sketches the sociolinguistic situation of the Assyrians of Tehran, using interviews, self-declarations and materials collected on the field.

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Author Biography

Harir Sherkat, University of Turin

Harir Sherkat, born in Isfahan, obtained an MA in Linguistic Sciences at the University of Turin. She currently teaches Persian Language and Literature at the same university. Her major fields of interest are typological linguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, as well as the teaching of foreign languages, in particular Persian.

She can be reached at: harirsherkat@gmail.com.

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