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Aramaic is a Semitic language with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. It is the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud. Aramaic is believed to have been the mother tongue of Jesus, and it is still spoken today as a first language by numerous small communities.
Aramaic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family. Within that diverse family, it belongs to the Semitic subfamily. Aramaic is a part of the Northwest Semitic group of languages, which also includes the Canaanite languages (such as Hebrew).
Geographic distribution
During the twelfth century BCE, Aramaeans, the native speakers of Aramaic, began to settle in great numbers in modern-day Syria, Iraq and eastern Turkey. As the language grew in importance, it came to be spoken throughout the Mediterranean coastal area of the Levant, and spread east of the Tigris. Jewish settlers took the language with them into North Africa and Europe, and Christian missionaries brought Aramaic into Persia, India and even China. From the seventh century CE onwards, Aramaic was replaced as the lingua franca of the Middle East by Arabic. However, Aramaic remains a literary and liturgical language among Jews, Mandaeans and some Christians, and is still spoken by small isolated communities throughout its original area of influence. The turbulence of the last two centuries has seen speakers of first-language and literary Aramaic dispersed throughout the world. More on [ Aramaic language ]
RT @AramaicScholar Evidence that the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic, not Greek: http://bit.ly/4FUUPj
osmarjardim (Osmar Jardim) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:36:57 -0000
RT @AramaicScholar Evidence that the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic, not Greek: http://bit.ly/4FUUPj
Evidence that the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic, not Greek: http://allthingsaramaic.com/peshitta-who-named-yeshua.php
AramaicScholar (AllThingsAramaic.Com) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:11:24 -0000
Evidence that the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic, not Greek: http://allthingsaramaic.com/peshitta-who-named-yeshua.php
@offgrid I used to chant the Zohar (Sulam Ha Orot/Ladder of Lights) every night in Aramaic. Amazing things happened to me doing that.
vaxen_var (vaxen_var) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:04:36 -0000
@offgrid I used to chant the Zohar (Sulam Ha Orot/Ladder of Lights) every night in Aramaic. Amazing things happened to me doing that.
Things to do while trying to get into Getty Center: Read War and Peace, translate complete works of Shakespeare into Aramaic...
TylerGreenDC (Tyler Green) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:19:27 -0000
Things to do while trying to get into Getty Center: Read War and Peace, translate complete works of Shakespeare into Aramaic...
Resolution: Read the Bible in Aramaic, the Qur'an in Arabic. Complete understanding, will then negotiate world peace. And win Mr California.
hjamess (james ) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:42:23 -0000
Resolution: Read the Bible in Aramaic, the Qur'an in Arabic. Complete understanding, will then negotiate world peace. And win Mr California.
"you know i speak chinese, farci, and a smidgen of ancient aramaic if that helps."
errrrrrika (Erika Schmidt) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:23:49 -0000
"you know i speak chinese, farci, and a smidgen of ancient aramaic if that helps."
Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon - Overview of the language, searchable database and concordance, newsletter, and bibliography.
Learn Assyrian (Aramaic / Neo-Aramaic) OnLine - Sections on the alphabet and songs. Also includes an Assyrian screen-saver.
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to speak through music, learn to read and write the way Jesus did, build your vocabulary,
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Learn Assyrian Aramaic - Six levels with several lessons each. Site search and forum.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to Learn Assyrian Aramaic language website,
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Syriac Language and Literature - Entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ Syriac is the important branch of the group of Semitic languages known as Aramaic ]
The Aramaic Language - A description of the language's development, with links to the Aramaic dictionary project.
The History of Aramaic - Traced through its stages of development.
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