Learn Aramaic

Suryoyo Sat is a Swedish channel that broadcasts in Syriac Aramaic.Other channels might exist but it is the only one that I am aware of.It broadcasts in Arabic and English as well.Here is the   link to the original site.Enjoy! Suryoyo has recently been a great help in the attempt to revive Syriac Aramaic as a spoken language in Israel.You can read more about that here . Suryoyo TV Broadcasting live with Ustream

By Diaa Hadid Jish, Israel : Two villages in the Holy Land’s tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East. The new focus on the region’s dominant language 2,000 years ago comes with a little help from modern technology: an Aramaic-speaking television channel from Sweden, of all places, where a vibrant immigrant community has kept the ancient tongue alive. In the Palestinian village of Beit Jala, an older generation of Aramaic speakers is trying to share the language with their grandchildren. Beit Jala lies next to Bethlehem, where the New Testament says Jesus was born. And in the Arab-Israeli village of Jish, nestled in the Galilean hills where Jesus lived and preached, elementary school children are now being instructed in Aramaic. The children belong mostly to the Maronite Christian community. Maronites still chant their liturgy in Aramaic b...

the Syriac Estrangelo Aramaic alphabet Estrangelo is the oldest of the Syriac scripts used to write Classical Syriac which stopped being widely used since the 10th century. Nowadays some scholarly publications,titles and inscriptions are written in the Estrangelo.Its' name comes from Greek and it means 'rounded'.It later evolved into the cursive Serto -the Western Syriac script   Estrangelo did not use vowel diacritics. They were used later in some cases. In the following image I have put some letters together that look alike for ease of learning them. But two later versions of the Syriac alphabet (Serto and Madnkhaya) that evolved later did use vowel signs. Two vowel systems developed,the western based on Greek vowels under the Byzantines for Serto and the eastern under the Persian Sassanids for Madnkhaya which used dots. More on vowels in Syriac Aramaic here. Now let's give it a try to write the Syriac Estrangelo alphabet. Apart from Syriac various languages use...

Apostle Simon Peter was nicknamed Cepha (Κηφᾶς)  in Aramaic which means 'stone'.Peter (Πέτρος) is the exact translation of the name in Greek by which the apostle became widely known.Πέτρος( Petros) comes from the word πέτρα (petra).This is how the name is spelled in the Aramaic square script .