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Mandaic

ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡀ · Mand script, written right to left. Spoken in Khuzestan, the Mandaean community.

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Mandaic

ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡀ · Mand script, written right to left. Spoken in Khuzestan, the Mandaean community.

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Niha
Academy126 courses, none open for enrolment yetCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
ScriptMandright to lefton request

Tomar

mid
ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡀMandaic · Mand
Kod
mid
Malbat
Semitic, Aramaic
Where
Khuzestan, the Mandaean community
Phase
on request
Vegirtin
not yet measured
Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

0 in the catalogue

No course names this variety yet.

Courses from the Academy catalogue; a course opens for enrolment one by one after review.

Writing

1 script

Its own names

ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡀ
right to left

Alfabe

Mand
Mandaic alphabetࡀ ࡁ ࡂ ࡃ ࡄ ࡅ ࡆ ࡇ
25 letters
  • Endangered (UNESCO, to verify)
Names in the language's own writing; each sample keeps its direction.

Çavkanî

3 resources
A Mandaic Dictionary (Drower and Macuch, 1963)dictionary · Clarendon Press · link not checked
divê were piştrastkirin
Glottolog: Neo-Mandaicreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
piştrastkirî
Glottolog: Classical Mandaicreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
piştrastkirî
Each resource shows whether its link was checked. A resource without a checked link is labelled to verify.

Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Malbat
Afro-Asiatic, then Semitic, then West Semitic, then Central Semitic, then Northwest Semitic, then Aramaic, then Imperial-Middle-Modern Aramaic, then Middle-Modern Aramaic, then Eastern Aramaic, then Macro-Mandaic
Kod
ISO 639-3 mid, myz · Glottolog nucl1706, clas1253
Dialects
Neo-Mandaic: Ahwaz, Iraqi Neo-Mandaic, Shushtar (3 listed in all)
Dialects
Classical Mandaic: groups not recorded (0 listed in all)
Standing
Neo-Mandaic: moribund (Severely Endangered) çavkaniya duyemîn
Standing
Classical Mandaic: extinct (9 (Second language only)) çavkaniya duyemîn
Macro-Mandaic
piştrastkirî
Piştrast bike, çavkaniyekê zêde bike an ragihîne
Alîkariya kontrolkirina vê nirxê bike

Paşê çi dibe. Parêzvanek nota te dixwîne û çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Rûpel tenê piştî wê diguhere. Navê te nayê gotin.

Classical and Neo-Mandaic

Classical Mandaic is the language of Mandaean scripture and liturgy. Neo-Mandaic is the spoken language, now used by few speakers in Iran and abroad.

to verify · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; Häberl. The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr. Harrassowitz.

Speakers

nenas
Pîvan
speakers
Sal
nehatiye tomarkirin
Çavkanî
Hîn çavkanî tune. Em nenas nîşan didin, ne texmînek.
Rewş
nenas
Piştrast bike, çavkaniyekê zêde bike an ragihîne
Alîkariya kontrolkirina vê nirxê bike

Paşê çi dibe. Parêzvanek nota te dixwîne û çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Rûpel tenê piştî wê diguhere. Navê te nayê gotin.

No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.

Classification and standing from the sources named on each line. Where views differ, each view is shown with its sources.

Fêr bibe

no courses yet

No course teaches this language yet.

A course opens after its outline is reviewed. Until then it is listed with its state.

Key

labels and checks
  • verifiedA figure or claim read at its primary source by a steward or checkers from at least two communities.
  • secondaryA figure or claim cited through a reviewed work rather than read at its primary source.
  • to verifyA figure or claim whose source has not yet been read; it stays in the verification queue.
  • nenasHîn çavkanî tune. Em nenas nîşan didin, ne texmînek.
Parêzvanek berî her guhertinê çavkaniyê kontrol dike. Navê te nayê gotin.
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