Neo-Mandaic, sometimes called the "ratna", is the modern reflex of the Mandaic language, the liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran.
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10 Facts About Neo-Mandaic
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Nevertheless, Neo-Mandaic is more conservative even in these regards than most other Neo-Aramaic languages.
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Neo-Mandaic represents the latest stage of the development of Classical Mandaic, a language of the Middle East which was first attested during the period of Late Antiquity and which continues to be used to the present date by the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran.
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Two surviving dialects of Neo-Mandaic have thus far been documented, those of Ahwaz and Khorramshahr.
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Neo-Mandaic is a dialect of Aramaic, a Northwest Semitic language that was formerly spoken throughout the Middle East.
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Vowel system in Neo-Mandaic is composed of seven distinct vowels, of which six are principal phonemes, and one is marginal.
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Permissible consonant clusters in Neo-Mandaic fall into two categories: clusters that form at the beginning or the end of a syllable, and those that span syllable boundaries.
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The latter are less restricted; with few exceptions, Neo-Mandaic tolerates most clusters of two or occasionally even three consonants across a syllable boundary.
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Neo-Mandaic has two reciprocal pronouns, ham 'each other' and h?d?d? 'one another.
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Much like other Semitic languages, Neo-Mandaic employs a predicate locative construction to express the notion of possession.
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