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.
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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 አማáˆáŠ› 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 the Arameans who first spoke it.
Read also When did the Jews shift to Aramaic?
A dialect of Aramaic, Galilean Aramaic is believed to have been the native language of Jesus Christ.
Aramaic is still spoken to this day in pockets in the Middle East in various countries and in the West by the diaspora. These are the Neo-Aramaic languages like Assyrian Neo-Aramaic which has the biggest number of Speakers their estimate ranging from half to one million.
All Semitic languages share a common ancestor and a similar common shared vocabulary. And that is as close as Aramaic and Amharic get.
Semitic languages belong to a bigger language family called Afro-asiatic. Ancient Egyptian and its' descendant Coptic were Afro-asiatic languages.
Armenian and Aramaic
Armenian has no connection to Aramaic whatsoever. It originated in the Caucasus and it is an Indo-european language as opposed to Aramaic which is a Semitic one.
The only similarity they have between them is that their name sounds similar in English.
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Medieval Armenia. |
So,no Aramaic is not Armenian nor Amharic. They are all different.
Ridiculous as Aramaic is absolutely ancient Armenian. This article is fake history.
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