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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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Now
Academy126 courses, 126 open for enrolmentCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet
ScriptMandright to lefton request

Record

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

Courses that teach it

0 in the catalogue

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Writing

1 script

Its own names

ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡀ
right to left

Scripts

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.

Resources

3 resources
A Mandaic Dictionary (Drower and Macuch, 1963)dictionary · Clarendon Press · link not checked
to verify
Glottolog: Neo-Mandaicreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
verified
Glottolog: Classical Mandaicreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
verified
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
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
Codes
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) secondary
Standing
Classical Mandaic: extinct (9 (Second language only)) secondary
Macro-Mandaic
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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

unknown
Measure
speakers
Year
not recorded
Source
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Status
unknown
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