Learn Aramaic

  Evening is noospa in Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.  Chaldean is considered a sister language of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. Linguistically these two are dialects of the same language but often they are classified as different languages due to political reasons. Chaldeans ,the Kaldāye ( ܟܲܠܕܵܝܹܐ ) as their are known in the Chaldean language are Assyrian Catholics adherent to Chaldean Catholic Church. Chaldean Catholics from Marcin,Turkey,19nth century. Read also A Chaldean American success story.

Some Aramaic greetings. Peace be upon you. I love the Aramaic language . What's your name in Aramaic . Sinner in Aramaic . God willing in Aramaic. God why have you forsaken me? More Aramaic phrases.

B'LTRZ בעלתרז Baaltars (combination of Baal and Tarsus) was the guardian god of the city of Tarsus in the Persian Empire. Baal originally ment lord or owner in Northwest Semitic languages but it came to mean god. In the left of the coin there are the Aramaic letters TN and an M under the throne. The coin's backside reads MZDI in Aramaic which is Mazday or Mazaios the Persian satrap of Cilicia. AR Stater, 361/360-334 BC, Tarsus,Cilicia. The lion attacking the bull was a common imagery at Persepolis-the religious capital of the Persian Empire. Combat between lion and bull (Persepolis).

Is Aramaic Amharic or Armenian? Of course not. They are all separate languages. There is quite a lot of people out there that mistake Amharic or Armenian for Aramaic just because their name has three same letters 'Arm' and it sounds more or less the similar to them. Semitic languages. Aramaic and Amharic Aramaic and Amharic are distant relatives both belonging to the Semitic language family. They belong to different branches of the family.  Semitic languages were/are Hebrew, Phoenician,Arabic,Tigrinya and Maltese. Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language first spoken in Upper Mesopotamia while Amharic is a south Semitic language which first appeared in the area of modern day Ethiopia. Amharic is called  አማርኛ   Amarenna, sounding like Aramaic. Aramaic originated in what is nowadays northern Iraq, Northwestern Syria and Southeastern Turkey. It became a major language and spread all over the so-called Fertile Crescent and the native one for many peoples like the Jews besides ...

In short, the answer is yes but sometimes no. Syriac is Aramaic . Syriac is just a phase in the long history of Aramaic languages. Arameans are thought to first have appeared in the region between northern Levant and the Tigris river at about 1200 BC.  There they formed various Aramaic speaking kingdoms like the kingdom of Aram. The first written Aramaic is dated to about 1000BC. This was is called Old Aramaic or Ancient Aramaic and was written in the Phoenician alphabet. From Phoenician sprung the Aramaic alphabet. At about 200AD new regional dialects of Aramaic rose to prominence. These were Syriac Aramaic dialects. The alphabet for Syriac was different from earlier Aramaic. It was more cursive and probably styled upon Byzantine Greek minuscule. So,yes Syriac is Aramaic. It is to what some dialects of Old Aramaic evolved to. Syriac and Aramaic. Sometimes the term Aramaic is used separately to refer only to Old Aramaic not including the Syriac phase.  And this why you will ...

The Egyptians fearing the expansion of the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar moved their armies north to Assyria. They faced their enemies at Carchemish were they were defeated in 605BC. Nebuchadnezzar נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר‎ After their victory the Babylonians  besieged Jerusalem which resulted in Jehoiakim-king of Judah paying tribute to the Neo-Babylonian empire and young nobility of the kingdom of Judah (Bēyt Dāwīḏ in Aramaic) being transferred and kept hostages in Babylon. Battle of Carchemish. But in 603BC Nebuchadnezzar's army was defeated by the Egyptians ruled by Nechu II and as a result Jehoiakim revolted against his Babylonian overlords refusing to pay tribute. Nebuchadnezzar waisted no time and moved against Jerusalem again which was captured and utterly destroyed. The Jewish nobility and many others were forcibly exiled to Babylon. There they were forced to learn Aramaic the common language of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Destruction of Jerusalem. Exile to Babylon. In 539BC the ...