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Western Aramaic is a group of Aramaic dialects once spoken widely throughout the ancient Levant, predominantly in the south, and Sinai, including ancient Damascus, Nabatea, Judea, across the Palestine Region, Transjordan, Samaria as well as Lebanon in the north.
- Aramaic Languages
Ārāmāyā in Syriac Esṭrangelā script Syriac-Aramaic alphabet....
- Western Neo-Aramaic
Western Neo-Aramaic is believed to be the closest living...
- Aramaic language
Because many different people over many centuries spoke and...
- Syriac language
The Syriac language ( / ˈsɪriæk / SIH-ree-ak; Classical...
- Aramaic Languages
Aramaic (. ܐܪܡܝܐ, ארמית. / Arāmît) Aramaic is a Semitic language which was the lingua franca of much of the Near East from about 7th century BC until the 7th century AD, when it was largely replaced by Arabic. Classical or Imperial Aramaic was the main language of the Persian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires and spread as far as ...
Neo-Aramaic. NEO-ARAMAIC, general name for the various branches of spoken Aramaic, both western and eastern. Three groups of dialects are known. The first includes the dialects of Maʿlūla, a continuation of the western branch of Middle Aramaic, spoken by Christians and Muslims in three villages about 60 km. (38 mi.) north of Damascus.
