In Biblical Aramaic Son of God (ܐܠܗܐ) was bar 'elaha (ܒܪ ܐܠܗܐ) .The genitive case did not exist and it was formed simply by putting two nouns one after the other.In Syriac Son of God would be bar d alaha.
bar elaha in the Hebrew script
The phrase is said in Mel Gibson's movie the Passion of the Christ.Watch and listen carefully.The High Priest asks 'bar elaha hai?The Son of living God?'
Galilean Aramaic was the language Jesus Christ spoke. It belongs to the Western branch of Aramaic. The sole survivor of the Western branch in modern times is the Aramaic dialect spoken in the Syrian village of Maalula.
Shlamlak -hello (to a man)
Shlamlek-hello (to a woman)
Not to be confused with ancient Assyrian ,also a Semitic language but not Aramaic. Assyrian was eventually completely supplanted by Aramaic due to various reasons, both languages being spoken in the Assyrian empire, widespread bilingualism and close affiliation between the two being both Semitic.
shlamalukh (to a man)
hello
shlamalakh (to a woman)
hello
Shlama ilokhun
hello
Push!
Bye!
Keidomtukh brikhta
Good Morning
Dakhee vit/vat?
How are you?
(vit is for a male,vat for a female)
Dakhee toon? (formal)
How are you?
Spay vin/van,merci.
I am good,thank you.
Spay,merci.
Good thank you.
At dakhee vit/vat?
And you?
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.
Chaldeanis the sister language of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.
Shlama (to one person)
Hello.
Shlama ilokhen (to more people)
Hello.
Dekh-e-yat? (to a female)
Dekh-e-yit? (to a male)
How are you?
Turoyo (Surayt)
Turoyo also known as the mountain Aramaic from the word tur - mountain is traditionally spoken at the Northeast border between Turkey and Syria. ܫܳܠܡܳܐ
Shlomo
Hello.
ܒܫܰܝܢܳܐ
B shayno.
Hello.(in response to shlomo)
Targumic Aramaic
Targumicis the language of the targums, translations of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic. These translations were a necessity because Hebrew falling out of use as a spoken language by the 3rd century AD being replaced by Aramaic.
Targumic Aramaic was written in the so-called square Aramaic alphabet from which the Hebrew one derived. Nowadays the morden Hebrew alphabet is used to write Targumic due to their closeness and for ease of use.
The Arabic alphabet is a descendant of the Nabatean script which ultimately derived from the Syriac script ,the Serto version.Thus the transliteration from Arabic to Syriac and vice versa presents little difficulties.
As you can see in the table below the letters are quite similar.
