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still followed by M. Sokoloff in his recent work, A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period.'1 A different division, now widely accepted, has been put forward by J. A. Fitzmyer.2 It is as follows: a) Old Aramaic, up to 700 B.C.E.; b) Official Aramaic, 700-300 .c.E.; c) Middle Aramaic, 300 ..E.-200 c.E.; d) Late Aramaic (= Middle Aramaic of Rosenthal's division), with two branches: the eastern branch consisting of Syriac, Mandaic, the Aramaic of the Talmud Babli, the Gaonic Literature and incantation texts found mainly in Nippur; and the western, consisting of Samaritan Aramaic, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Galilean Aramaic (which some, for example Sokoloff, prefer to call Jewish Palestinian Aramaic) found in the Aramaic portions of the Palestinian Talmud and haggadic midrashim and other sources; e) Modern Aramaic (in its eastern and western dialects).
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Antiquity, which are sometimes referred to collectively as 'Middle Aramaic' or 'Late (Antique) Aramaic'. Central Neo-Aramaic, North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic and Neo-Mandaic are related to the eastern branch of premodern Aramaic, e.g. Classical Syriac, Classical Mandaic and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, whereas Western Neo-Aramaic is related to the western branch, e.g. Jewish and Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Samaritan Aramaic. No Neo-Aramaic subgroup, however, could be considered a direct descendent of the attested forms of the literary pre-modern Aramaic varieties.
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that the Syriac Peshitta might have been used by Chrysostom (Krupp 1991:75). Based on this, three points can be summarized. (i) The linguistic milieu of Antioch was bilingualism in Aramaic and Greek. (ii) There may have been many bilinguals among both upper-status and lower-status Syrians. (iii) The inhabitants' competence in speaking Greek depends on their social status and, by and large, it is appropriate to assume that upper-status inhabitants spoke Greek as their matrix languages while lower-status inhabitants spoke Aramaic as their matrix languages.
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a) Old Aramaic from the beginning (through Biblical Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene) down to the established eastern and western branches; b) Middle Aramaic, with two branches, eastern and western; c) Late Aramaic, with the contemporary western (Ma'alula) and eastern branches. This older terminology is
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The Neo-Aramaic dialects are clearly closely related to the written forms of Aramaic of earlier periods. The Neo-Aramaic subgroups can be correlated broadly with dialectal divisions that are reflected in pre-modern written Aramaic sources from the first millennium CE onwards particularly during Late
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On market days and festivals, Syriac-speaking peasants flocked to Antioch, which indicates that there was lively interaction between Syriac-speaking and Greek-speaking Syrians, thus allowing Antiochene inhabitants to continue to hear Syriac. Furthermore, adding to the general picture, it is thought
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Despite their names, they are not restricted to specific churches; Chaldean Neo-Aramaic being spoken by members of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Assyrian Protestant churches, and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic and Turoyo being spoken by members of the
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The Syriac writers of Qatar themselves produced some of the best and most sophisticated writing to be found in all Syriac literature of the seventh century, but they have not received the scholarly attention that they deserve in the last half century. This volume seeks to redress this
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of northern Iraq, northeast Syria, southeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran, as well as small migrant communities in Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Armenia, Georgia, southern Russia and Azerbaijan. Most of these are members of the
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The Persian location and character of the Metropolitan proved to be a source of friction between the Syriac-speaking Christians of Beth Qatraye who naturally looked to their co-linguists back in Mesopotamia.
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Based on interviews with community informants, this paper explores socialization for ingroup identity and endogamy among Assyrians in the United States. The Assyrians descent from the population of ancient
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The classical version of Eastern Neo-Aramaic, often called Syriac, emerged in the first centuries after Christ in the theological school of Edessa. It has its own alphabet and serves as a ritual language.
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It may just demonstrate that in the course of the evolution of the Aramaic dialects it removed itself from Western Aramaic to a lesser extent than the other Eastern dialects.
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Antioch was a major city and the capital of the Syriac-speaking region. From Antioch, the rest of the Syriac-speaking provinces received the Christian message,…
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Historically, eastern varieties of Aramaic have been more dominant, mainly due to their political acceptance in the
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However there are still between some 550,000 – 1,000,000 fluent Eastern Neo-Aramaic speakers among the indigenous
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He was born in the region of Beth Qatraye in Eastern Arabia, a mixed Syriac- and Arabic-speaking region…
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underdevelopment by setting the standard for further research in the sub-field of Beth Qatraye studies.
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period, spanning from 300 B.C.E. to 200 C.E., Aramaic diverged into its eastern and western branches.
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Numbers of fluent speakers range from approximately 300,000 to 575,000, with the main languages being
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of the seventh century, most of the population of the Middle East has undergone a gradual but steady
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The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria: Between A Rock and A Hard Place
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refers to a group of dialects that evolved historically from the varieties of
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in 608 BC. Practices that maintain ethnic and cultural continuity in the
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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East
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and parts of northeastern Syria) and further expanded into northern
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had emerged. Between the 1st and 4th centuries AD, it became a
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These varieties have widely influenced the less prominent
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spoken in the core territories of Mesopotamia (modern-day
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In addition, there are approximately 25,000 speakers of
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Khan, Geoffrey; Noorlander, Paul M. (15 January 2021).
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empires. With the later loss of political platforms to
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in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey since the fall of the
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Studies in Aramaic Poetry (c. 100 B.C.E.-c. 600 C.E.)
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John Wiley & Sons. p. 234. 1035: 1009: 913:characterized by unique holidays and 860:Turoyo at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) 202:varieties found predominantly in the 674: 469:, became the liturgical language of 316:adding citations to reliable sources 283: 272:will also have a passive mastery of 702: 647:Pereira, Rodrigues (17 July 2018). 13: 2156:Languages between parentheses are 707:. Walter de Gruyter. p. 167. 675:Phan, Peter C. (21 January 2011). 434:schools flourished, producing the 214:, although there is a minority of 14: 2196: 288: 972: 943: 934: 854: 843: 832: 821: 576:Bible translations into Aramaic 419:. Later, it was adopted by the 411:, as well as in the schools of 2160:of the language on their left. 810: 781: 753: 725: 703:Lee, Sang-Il (26 April 2012). 696: 668: 640: 622:. Gorgias Press. p. 298. 607: 589: 250:Chaldean Catholic Church etc. 1: 954:. Mohr Siebeck. p. 186. 929:. Results are being analyzed. 582: 198:. This is in contrast to the 897:, political, religious, and 7: 563: 534:Assyrian Evangelical Church 530:Assyrian Pentecostal Church 514:Assyrian Church of the East 265:minority in Iraq and Iran. 229: 10: 2201: 526:Ancient Church of the East 279: 210:region. Most speakers are 16:Group of Aramaic languages 2180:Eastern Aramaic languages 2142: 2069: 1970: 1911: 1904: 1871: 1862: 1855: 1808: 1799: 1729: 1637: 1484: 1365: 1326: 1317: 1308: 1250: 1229: 1132: 1123: 1114: 1076: 1043: 950:McNamara, Martin (2011). 556:, and as a result of the 494:Muslim conquest of Persia 274:Jewish Babylonian Aramaic 155: 117:Jewish Babylonian Aramaic 105: 60:Linguistic classification 58: 43:, northern & eastern 26: 21: 2153:or historical languages. 979:Schmidinger, T. (2020). 952:Targum and New Testament 792:. Open Book Publishers. 736:. Springer. p. 49. 522:Chaldean Catholic Church 430:(modern southern Iraq), 238:(40,000 plus speakers), 138:Northeastern Neo-Aramaic 421:Saint Thomas Christians 242:(220,000 speakers) and 677:Christianities in Asia 560:to the Western World. 518:Syriac Orthodox Church 386:Eastern Middle Aramaic 1443:Christian Palestinian 1155:Ancient North Arabian 925:and encouragement of 616:Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn 490:Neo-Aramaic languages 49:Southeastern Anatolia 1543:Koy Sanjaq Christian 1220:Pre-classical Arabic 734:Christianity in Oman 651:. 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Index

Fertile Crescent
Iraq
Iran
Syria
Southeastern Anatolia
Eastern Arabia
Linguistic classification
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Aramaic
Classical Syriac
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Classical Mandaic
Hatran Aramaic
Neo-Aramaic
Northeastern Neo-Aramaic
Central Neo-Aramaic
Neo-Mandaic
Glottolog
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Aramaic
Iraq
Turkey
Syria
eastern Arabia
Iran
Western Aramaic
southern Levant

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