Summary of Senaya II – Texts in the Senaya Dialect
Author: Estiphan Panoussi
Introduction by: Wolfhart Heinrichs
Publication Year: 2002
 
Overall Purpose
This book is a scholarly linguistic work documenting the Senaya dialect, a form of Neo-Aramaic spoken by Chaldean Christians from Sanandaj in Persian Kurdistan (modern Iran).
Its main goal is language preservation and academic study. Senaya is one of many endangered Neo-Aramaic dialects, and the author aims to record authentic speech, stories, and linguistic structures before they disappear.
 
The volume forms part of a larger research project intended to produce three major resources:
A collection of texts (this volume)
A complete grammar of Senaya
A dictionary
 
Together, these would make Senaya one of the best-documented Neo-Aramaic dialects in the world.