To distinguish it from other dialects of Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Hulaulá is sometimes called Galiglu ('mine-yours'), demonstrating different use of prepositions and pronominal suffixes.
Scholarly sources tend simply to call it Persian Kurdistani Jewish Neo-Aramaic.
[3] Hulaulá sits at the southeastern extreme of the wide area over which various Neo-Aramaic dialects used to be spoken.
From Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran, the area extended north, to the banks of Lake Urmia.
The upheavals in their traditional region after the First World War and the founding of the State of Israel led most of the Persian Jews to settle in the new homeland in the early 1950s.
In general, the Trans-Zab dialect bundle has many isoglosses, such as final stress, e.g. gorá "man" vs. góra "elsewhere", merged interdentals /ṯ/ and /ḏ/ into /l/, e.g. belá "house" (< *bayṯā) and ʾelá "festival" (< *ʿeḏā), lexemes, e.g. băruxa "friend2, the definite suffix -aké borrowed from Gorani, and verb-final word order influenced by Iranian.