NEO-ARAMAIC DIALECT STUDIES THE NEO-ARAMAIC DIALECT OF SAT (HAKKÂRI (original) (raw)

Sat (s t), today called kiyaka, was a large Assyrian village situated in a valley at the foot of the Sat Da mountain range in the Ottoman province of Hakkâri, just two kilometres North of the present Iraqi border, nine kilometres SouthEast of the large Kurdish village of Oramar (now officially called Da lıca) and roughly twenty kilometres SouthEast of the district of Jilu. 2 My informants recounted that in its heyday on the eve of the First World War Sat was a conglomerate of seven neighbourhoods, formerly contiguous small villages, each with its own church. 3 There is no mention of a Neo-Aramaic dialect unique to the village of Sat in any known source, and scarcely anything about the Assyrians who lived there (the satnaye). 4 The latter were peasants living in a state of serf