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  Aramaic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the language of the city-states of Damascus, Hamath and Arpad.
Nabataean Aramaic is the language of the Arab kingdom of Petra.
Palmyrene Aramaic is the dialect that was in use in the city of Palmyra in the Syrian Desert from 44 BCE to 274 CE.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aramaic   (5380 words)

  
 Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
Aramaic spread with tremendous speed, and by the 6th century BC was being used as the administrative language and lingua franca of the entire Middle East, all the way from Afghanistan in the Persian Empire to Egypt.
Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
phoenicia.org /semlang.html   (2730 words)

  
 Samaritan Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Samaritans fared badly under Roman EmpireRoman rule, when Samaria was part of the Roman province of Judea, in the early part of the Common Era.
The Samaritan faith was virtually outlawed thereafter by the Christian Byzantine Empire; from a population once at least in the hundreds of thousands, the Samaritan community dwindled to near extinction.
Samaritans appear to have texts of the Torah as old as the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint; scholars have various theories concerning the actual relationships between these three texts.
www.echostatic.com /index.php?title=Samaritan   (1527 words)

  
 Aramaic; Aramaic Language (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
Aramaic was the official language of the extensive Persian empire, as it had been to some extent that of its predecessor, the empire of Assyria.
As it is frequently asserted that the Aramaic of Daniel and Ezra is that of the Targums, it is necessary to examine the truth of this statement.
In regard to pronouns, while in Biblical Aramaic, as in Sinjirli and Assouan, the 1st person singular is 'an'a, in Targumic it is 'anah: the plural in Biblical Aramaic is 'anachna' akin to 'anachnah in Assouan, whereas in the Targums it is usually 'anan, though sometimes the Biblical form appears.
bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/678   (3141 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Samaritan Language and Literature
The original language of the Samaritans was the vernacular of Palestine, that is Hebrew.
The colloquial language of the Samaritans from the last centuries before Christ up to the first centuries of the Arab domination was a dialect of western Aramaic largely peculiar to Palestine.
It is a roll made of the skins of rams, and written, according to the belief of the Samaritans, in the thirteenth year after the conquest of Canaan at the entrance to the Tabernacle on Mount Garizim by Abisha, a great-grandson of Aaron.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13417a.htm   (4045 words)

  
 A study in the Aramaic Language Of Jesus
It may also be said that other languages, Semitic and non-Semitic had their influence on the Hebrew language, especially those who had a significant cultural impact in the region such as the Sumarian, Akkadian,[5] and Egyptian.
The Aramaic language before that time had been widely spread throughout the Assyrian Empire as the language of administration, commerce and diplomacy, supplanting the Akkadian as the Lingua Franca of the Assyrian Empire (1100-612 BC).
According to Dr. Birkeland, Hebrew, not Aramaic, was the language of the Jews and of Jesus.
www.aramnaharaim.org /AramaicJesus.htm   (2494 words)

  
 Alphabet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Samaritan Hebrew alphabet, as it is called by scholars, is a slight development of the paleoHebrew, the ancient Hebrew script.
On the left side of the tablet there are Persian, Aramaic, Jewish Hebrew scripts alongside the Paleo-Hebrew and on the right side of the tablet is the pronunciation of the ancient Hebrew letters.
There they learn the script and the reading of the ancient Samaritan Hebrew as well as their special dialect of the Aramaic taught by Samaritan teachers in order to maintain the tradition from generation to generation.
www.mystae.com /reflections/messiah/scripts/alphabet.html   (276 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Aramaic (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Although Aramaic was displaced officially in the Middle East by Greek after the coming of Alexander the Great, it held its own under Greek domination and subsequent Roman rule.
In the course of its long history the Aramaic language broke up into a number of dialects, one of the most important of which was Syriac.
Descended from the Aramaic alphabet are the Square Hebrew alphabet, which is the ancestor of modern Hebrew writing; the Nabataean, Palmyrene, and Syriac scripts; and the Arabic alphabet, among others.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Aramaic.html   (471 words)

  
 Aramaic language - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
BCE early written Aramaic bar:test at:-740 mark:(line,white) at:-740 shift:(10,0) text:740s BCE Aramaic official in Assyria bar:test at:-500 mark:(line,white) at:-500 shift:(10,0) text:c.500 BCE Darius I decrees Aramaic official bar:test at:-425 mark:(line,white) at:-425 shift:(10,0) text:5th c.
BCE Aramaic Palmyra, Petra and Osrhoene bar:test at:45 mark:(line,white) at:45 shift:(10,0) text:1st c.
The Aramaic verb knows six 'conjugations': alterations to the verbal root than can imply the passive voice (ethkthev, 'it was written'), intensive (kattev, 'he decreed (in writing)') and the extensive (akhtev, 'he composed').
www.grohol.com /wiki/Aramaic   (5852 words)

  
 ALFRED detailed record information
The Samaritans broke with the Jewish majority in 6th century BCE, and constructed a temple on the mountain Gerizim.
The Second difference is that the Samaritan scripture is limited to the Pentecost and have faith in the five books of hte Holy Torah, while the Jews have faith in the old Torah.
The third is that the Jewish language is the Asyrian (new Hebrew) whereas the Samaritan language is the old Hebrew.
alfred.med.yale.edu /alfred/recordinfo.asp?UNID=PO000095O   (402 words)

  
 Arabic alphabet, pronunciation and language
The Aramaic language has fewer consonants than Arabic, so during the 7th century new Arabic letters were created by adding dots to existing letters in order to avoid ambiguities.
All Muslims are expected to recite the Qur'an in the original language, however many rely on translations in order to understand the text.
It is the language of the vast majority of written material and of formal TV shows, lectures, etc.
www.omniglot.com /writing/arabic.htm   (781 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:SMP
SAMARITAN: a n extinct language of Palestinian West Bank and Gaza
The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
They use Samaritan Hebrew mainly and Samaritan Aramaic secondarily as liturgical languages.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=SMP   (94 words)

  
 A Dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic
Over a period of more than fifteen years the author has exhaustively collected material form the Samaritans’ translations of the Pentateuch, their liturgy, literary compositions, chronicles, etc., as presented in the growing corpus of scholarly editions.
Particularly important for the study of Aramaic Jewish and Christian sources composed during the Roman and Byzantine periods in the Land of Israel, and an absolute must for Biblical Scholars.
Abraham Tal, Ph.D. (1971) in Aramaic, Hebrew University, is Emeritus Professor (Tel-Aviv University).
www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=9057   (267 words)

  
 Aramaic
Aramaic, language belonging to the West Semitic subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see
After the Jews were defeated by the Babylonians in 586 B.C., they began to speak Aramaic instead of Hebrew, although they retained Hebrew as the sacred language of their religion.
In the course of its long history the Aramaic language broke up into a number of dialects, one of the most important of which was
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0804510.html   (451 words)

  
 / Aramaic language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Aramaic verb has six 'conjugations': alterations to the verbal root than can mark the passive voice (ethkthev, 'it was written'), intensive (kattev, 'he decreed (in writing)') and the extensive (akhtev, 'he composed').
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www.abcworld.net /Aramaic_language.html   (5670 words)

  
 Nabataea: Nabataean Writing - Main Menu
The Nabataean language is closely related to old Arabic.
The Nabataean alphabet is related to Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Kharosthi, Phoenician, Sabaean, Samaritan, South Arabian, and Syriac.
Stone inscriptions in the Nabataean script have been found in the various Nabataean cities in the Negev, in
nabataea.net /write.html   (125 words)

  
 Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Codes for the representation of names of languages (Library of Congress)
Where two codes are provided (22 languages total) the bibliographic code is given first and the terminology code is given second.
Multiple codes for the same language are to be considered synonyms.
www.loc.gov /standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html   (126 words)

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