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Aramaic or Syriac

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Corinnebelle

Aramaic or Syriac

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Anyone interested in learning Aramaic or Syriac? I would like to learn it so if anyone can teach it, that would be great!

Aramaic is the language the Jews spoke after the exile. The Peshitta is written in Aramaic as well as parts of Daniel and Ezra. Jewish Targums, much of Jewish rabbinic literature and a lot of Syrian Christian literature is in Aramaic. Also some of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Aramaic has many scripts. The square script Hebrew is in today was adopted from Aramaic.

Chaldean neo-aramaic

![chaldeanneoaramaic](https://omniglot.com/images/writing/cha ... ramaic.gif)

Estrangelo

![syriac estrangelo](https://omniglot.com/images/writing/syr ... angelo.gif)

Serto

![syriac serto](https://omniglot.com/images/writing/syriac_serto.gif)

For the Peshitta you can use the Peshitta tool by dukhrana. They also have a number of lexicons you can download. I taught myself some of the scripts so I can find words in the lexicons but I can't read very well. I hope to be able to read it one day!

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Jacko079
United States of America

Re: Aramaic or Syriac

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Aramaic looks very interesting! I probably won’t take it up though, learning Arabic is enough work for me. :)

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Corinnebelle

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Jacko079 wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:14 am

Aramaic looks very interesting! I probably won’t take it up though, learning Arabic is enough work for me. :)

Arabic is a fascinating language I think. Aramaic is quite similar to Hebrew. Hebrew and Arabic share similarities as well. According to this it's about 60%. Like German and English. Aramaic and Hebrew compare to each other as sister languages for example as English to Dutch. Dutch is closer to English than German from the Germanic language tree. Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic are from the Semitic language tree.

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Stasia
Poland

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Corinnebelle wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:38 am

Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic are from the Semitic language tree.

Indeed (image from Encyclopaedia Britannica):

Image

Based on the image, I'd guess that Hebrew and Aramaic are very close, and Arabic is (are? I think the regional differences can be significant) slightly more distant from the other two.

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Corinnebelle

Re: Aramaic or Syriac

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Stasia wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:14 pm
Corinnebelle wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:38 am

Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic are from the Semitic language tree.

Indeed (image from Encyclopaedia Britannica):

Image

Based on the image, I'd guess that Hebrew and Aramaic are very close, and Arabic is (are? I think the regional differences can be significant) slightly more distant from the other two.

Your image isn't working but the family tree was interesting in the link.

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Stasia
Poland

Re: Aramaic or Syriac

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Sorry for the image problems - it was from that link, and it should work now. :ugeek:

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