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Contents. 1 Geographic distribution. 1.1 Aramaic languages and dialects. 2 Writing system. 3 History. 4 Old Aramaic. 4.1 Ancient Aramaic. 4.2 Imperial Aramaic. 4.3 Post-Achaemenid Aramaic. 4.4 Late Old Eastern Aramaic. 4.5 Late Old Western Aramaic. 5 Middle Aramaic. 5.1 Eastern Middle Aramaic. 5.2 Western Middle Aramaic. 6 Modern Aramaic.
Old Aramaic ( Aramaic: 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀, romanized: Ārāmāyā) refers to the earliest stage of the Aramaic language, known from the Aramaic inscriptions discovered since the 19th century.
Introduction. In here, you will learn basic Aramaic, which includes its alphabet, sentence structures, verbs, grammar, nouns, etc. General Class Units. Alphabet. Latin Alphabet. Phrases. Loanwords. Learning links and learning resources. Wikipedia: Aramaic language. External.
History. Historically, eastern varieties of Aramaic have been more dominant, mainly due to their political acceptance in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Achaemenid Persian empires. With the later loss of political platforms to Greek and Persian, Eastern Aramaic continued to be used by the population of Mesopotamia.
Samaritan Aramaic, or Samaritan, was the dialect of Aramaic used by the Samaritans in their sacred and scholarly literature. This should not be confused with the Samaritan Hebrew language of the Scriptures. Samaritan Aramaic ceased to be a spoken language some time between the 10th and the 12th centuries, with Samaritans switching to Palestinian Arabic as their vernacular language.
History Manishtushu Obelisk in Akkadian language (detail). The obelisk was erected by Manishtushu, son of Sargon the Great, under the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) circa 2270-2255 BC Akkadian and Aramaic have been in extensive contact since their old periods. Local unwritten Aramaic dialects emerged from Imperial Aramaic in Assyria. In around 700 BC, Aramaic slowly started ...
Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic. It was originally spoken in three villages near Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. [2] The native name of the language is Lishanid Janan, which means 'our language', and is similar to names used by other Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects ( Lishan Didan ...
