Learn Aramaic

Modern words such as place names transliterated in the   Imperial Aramaic script is a great way to learn and remember easily the Aramaic alphabet. Today's word is 'America' or Amreeka rewritten as AMRYQH in Aramaic letters. This how to write it in the Imperial Aramaic script. Cultural note Assyrian Americans ( ܣܘܪܝܐ‌ ܕܐܵܡܵܝܪܝܼܟܵܐ)  Suraye be Amrika Literally Assyrians in America .  There are about a hundred thousand Assyrians/Chaldeans in the US. First recorded Assyrian presence in America dates back to the 19th century of an Assyrian working at a hotel in Philadelphia.The first wave of Assyrian immigrants to the US were men from the middle east working as translators. The second and biggest wave came after the persecution and genocide of the Assyrian people by the Neo-Turk regime in Kemal's Turkey. The third wave was after the war in Iraq and Syria.

In a race against time, a team of elite scholars work together to record the final remnants of a rich Linguistic Tradition.  Prof. Geoffrey Khan interviews a Christian Aramaic speaker in Georgia.  LONDON — Geoffrey Khan had almost given up. A linguist at the University of Cambridge, he was in Tbilisi, Georgia, to find the last speakers of a rare dialect of Aramaic. The first of his three leads, an old man in his 80s or 90s, had a stroke the previous month, and could no longer talk. The second, an elderly woman of nervous disposition, lived by herself with four howling rottweilers who made conversation impossible. The next day he visited the third address, a tall Soviet-style apartment block with dark corridors. A tiny old woman answered the door, and as she served him tea at the kitchen table, her hand started shaking. “She was exhausted just pouring. I didn’t know if she would survive the interview,” he recalls. “I said, ‘Can I ask you a few questions about your language? ...

'raq -to flee sleq- to go forth qtal- to kill npal- to fall shma' - to hear ktab - to write 'bar- to cross a river emar-to say ezal- to go Practice to say emar to write ktal to kill qtal