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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Aramaic_languagesThe Western Aramaic languages represent a specific group of Aramaic languages once spoken widely throughout the ancient Levant, from ancient Nabatea and Judea, across Palestine and Samaria, further to Palmyra and Phoenicia, and into Syria proper. The group was divided into … See more
In the middle of the fifth century, Theodoret of Cyrus (d. c. 466) noted Aramaic, commonly labeled by Greeks as "Syrian" or "Syriac", was widely spoken, and also stated that "the Osroënians, the Syrians, the people of the … See more
Today, Western Neo-Aramaic is the sole surviving remnant of the entire western branch of the Aramaic languages, spoken by no more than a … See more
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Historically and originally, Aramaic was the language of the Arameans, a Semitic-speaking people of the region between the northern Levant and the northern Tigris valley. By around 1000 BC, the Arameans had a string of kingdoms in what is now part of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and the fringes of southern Mesopotamia and Anatolia. Aramaic rose to prominence under the Ne…
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- Linguistic classification: Afro …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic
- Western Neo-Aramaic, more commonly referred to as Siryon, is a modern Western Aramaic language. Today, it is only spoken in three villages – Maaloula, Bakhah and Jubb'adin – in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains of western Syria. Western Neo-Aramaic is believed to be the closest living language to the language of Jesus, whose first language, according to s...
- Native to: Syria
- Native speakers: 21,700 (18,800 in Syria) (2016)
- https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_languageSee more on simple.wikipedia.orgAramaic is the language of long parts of the two Bible books of Daniel and Ezra. It is the language of the Jewish Talmud. In the 12th century BC, the first speakers of Aramaic started to live in what is now Syria, Iraq and eastern Turkey. As the bureaucratic language of the Achaemenid Empire, it became the most important l…
- Linguistic classification: Afro …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Aramaic
- Old Aramaic refers to the earliest stage of the Aramaic language, known from the Aramaic inscriptions discovered since the 19th century. Emerging as the language of the city-states of the Arameans in the Levant in the Early Iron Age, Old Aramaic was adopted as a lingua franca, and in this role was inherited for official use by the Achaemenid Empire...
- Dialects: Samalian
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Aramaic_languages
east2680. The Eastern Aramaic languages have developed from the varieties of Aramaic that developed in and around Mesopotamia ( Iraq, southeast Turkey, northeast Syria and …
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western aramaic languages is a group of several aramaic languages developed and once widely spoken throughout the ancient levant, as opposed to those from in and around …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataean_Aramaic
Nabataean Aramaic is the Aramaic variety used in inscriptions by the Nabataeans of the East Bank of the Jordan River, the Negev, and the Sinai Peninsula.Compared to other varieties of …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Palestinian_Aramaic
Aramaic alphabet. Language codes. ISO 639-3. jpa. Glottolog. gali1269. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Jewish Western Aramaic was a Western Aramaic language spoken by the Jews …
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