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Drunk words , sober thoughts.

עייל חמר נפיק רזא Ail Hamra nafek raza Drunk words,sober thoughts. Lit. Wine comes a,secret comes out. Vocabulary עייל - a'il- comes חמר - Ha'mra- wine נפיק - na'fek - comes out רזא - ra'za - secret Grammar The second Yod (י) in the verbs עייל and נפיק indicates the present tense. The same words without the Yod would mean came and came out עיל and נפק.The first Yod (י) reading from the right was a Waw (ו) that became a Yod.

Samaritan script

The Samaritan alphabet is used by the Samaritans,keepers of the Torah,the Shamerim ( שַמֶרִים ),an ethnoreligious group for purposes of religion for the languages of Samaritan Hebrew,Samaritan Aramaic and Samaritan Arabic.  The script evolved from the Old Hebrew alphabet and ultimately from Phoenician. This is an example of handwritten Samaritan script. Samaria and Judea after Herod. A handwritten example in the Samaritan script follows , Exodus chapter 20 by Lestat Lam . External links A dictionary of Samaritan Aramaic

Turoyo the mountain Aramaic.

Turoyo (  ܣܘܪܝܬ, Surayth)  ,the mountain Aramaic, also known as Surayt, Suroyo, Suryoyo - is a Central Neo-Aramaic language spoken nowadays mainly by the diaspora by the Assyrian people, about 100 thousand. Turoyo in Mardin,SE Turkey Yellow-19nth century Orange-end of 1960s Origin It originally appeared in the Tur Abdin region of South-Eastern Turkey where few people speak it now mainly in the Mardin Province and Al-Hasanak governate in  North-easternen Syria.It's name comes from the word turo for mountain. Name Turoyo is a term used by scholars for the sake of avoiding confusion with other Neo-Aramaic languages .Its speakers call it Surayth,Suroyo,Suryoyo,lishana Swaddaya and otherwise. Speakers It is mainly spoken by the diaspora after the Assyrian Genocide by the Neo-Turks and subsequent wars in the region which led to massive migration initially to Western Europe in the 1970s. It is estimated that Turoyo is spoken by about 100 thousand speakers and...

What's your name in Aramaic.

What's your name in Aramaic. Ancient Aramaic ?מה שׁמך  שׁמי ישׁוע Mah shmakh? (m) What is your name?   ישוע שמי Shmi Yeshua My name is Jesus. מא שמיך ma shmikh (f) What's your name? when talking to a female. Classical Syriac ܡ݃ܗ ܫܡ݃ܟ Mah shmak? ܝܶܫܽܘܥ ܫܡܝ݈ yeshuwʿ shmy݈ My name is Jesus. Neo-Aramaic Sureth (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic) ܡܼܘܕܝܼ ܝܠܸܐ ܫܸܡܘܼܟ Mude le shimukh? What's your name? Other  ܡܢ ܫܡܐ ܕܠܟ  ܫܡܐ ܕܠ ܝܗ ܗܘ man shmo dlokh? Shmo dil Yshu’a haw What's your name? My name is Jesus. Back to short Aramaic lessons. Read also Greetings in Ancient Aramaic . Some Aramaic greetings .