Western Aramaic languages

Western Aramaic languages is a group of several Aramaic dialects developed and once widely spoken throughout the ancient Levant , as opposed to those from in and around Mesopotamia which make up what is known as the Eastern Aramaic languages . All of the Western Aramaic languages are today extinct , with the sole exception of Western Neo-Aramaic .

Western Aramaic languages is a group of several Aramaic languages developed and once widely spoken throughout the ancient Levant , as opposed to those from in and around Mesopotamia , which make up what is known as the Eastern Aramaic languages , which are still spoken as mother tongues by the Chaldeans, Assyrians, Syriacs and Mandaeans of Iraq , north eastern Syria , south eastern Turkey and north western Iran . All of the Western Aramaic languages are extinct today except Western Neo-Aramaic .

Group of Aramaic languages of the Levant The Western Aramaic languages represent a specific group of Aramaic languages once spoken widely throughout the ancient Levant , from ancient Nabatea and Judea , across Palestine and Samaria , further to Palmyra and Phoenicia , and into Syria proper. The group was divided into several regional variants, spoken mainly by the Arameans and ancient People of the Levant, such as the people of Palestine before Islam. All of the Western Aramaic languages are today considered extinct , except Western Neo-Aramaic . Western Aramaic languages were distinct from Eastern Aramaic languages , spoken in various eastern regions, throughout modern northeastern Syria , southeastern Turkey , northern Iraq , and northwestern Iran .

Group of Aramaic dialects from the Levant Western Aramaic is a group of Aramaic dialects once spoken widely throughout the ancient Levant , predominantly in the south , and Sinai , including ancient Damascus , Nabatea , Judea , across the Palestine Region , Transjordan , Samaria as well as Lebanon and the basins of the Orontes as far as Aleppo in the north . The group was divided into several regional variants, spoken mainly by the Palmyrenes in the east and the Aramaeans who settled on Mount Lebanon - ancestors of the early Maronites . In the south, it was spoken by Judeans (early Jews ), Galileans , Samaritans , Pagans , Melkites (descendants of the aforementioned peoples who followed Chalcedonian Christianity ), Nabataeans and possibly the Itureans . All of the Western Aramaic dialects are considered extinct today, except for the modern variety known as Western Neo-Aramaic . This dialect, which descends from Damascene Aramaic , is still spoken by the Arameans (Syriacs) in the towns of Maaloula , Bakh'a and Jubb'adin near Damascus , Syria . Tempus, Aspekt und Modalität im Reichsaramäischen (in German). While the East Aramaic Palmyrene language seamlessly supplanted Imperial Aramaic as the language of Palmyra, likely in the second century BCE.… Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period . Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a Sociolinguistic Area . In a later study, Boyarin describes two phonetic changes which are apparently shared by Syriac and the Palestinian dialects. With the caution which is compulsory in such cases of parallel development, he ventures the hypothesis of the existence of certain isoglosses of Syriac and Palestinian Aramaic. According to Boyarin, besides those common features of Aramaic dialects which were inherited from earlier times, others may be supposed to rest upon innovations which spread through the dialects by diffusion. The main direction of this diffusion may have been either westward or eastward. This does not mean, of course, that Syriac should now be assigned to the group of the Western dialects. It may just demonstrate that in the course of the evolution of the Aramaic dialects it removed itself from Western Aramaic to a lesser extent than the other Eastern dialects. The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amadya . Ich kenne das Dorf nicht, doch gehört habe ich davon. Was ist mit Malula?‹ fragte der festgehaltene Derwisch. >Das letzte Dorf der Aramäer< lachte einer der… Yaron Matras; Jeanette Sakel (2007). Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective . The fact that nearly all Arabic loans in Ma'lula originate from the period before the change from the rural dialect to the city dialect of Damascus shows that the contact between the Aramaeans and the Arabs was intimate… Dr. Untersuchungen zum Spracherwerb zweisprachiger Kinder im Aramäerdorf Dschubbadin (Syrien) (in German). Die Kontakte zwischen den drei Aramäer-dörfern sind nicht besonders stark. Viele Aramäer arbeiten heute in Damaskus, Beirut oder in den Golfstaaten und verbringen nur die Sommermonate im Dorf. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).