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Yes it is. Nowadays some Neo-Aramaic languages survive in the Middle East the most important ones in numbers of speakers being Chaldean, Surayt ( Turoyo the mountain Aramaic ) and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (not to be confused wi…
This letter was a petition of the Jews of Yebu - (Elephantine) to the Persian governor of Judaea Bagohi -Bagoas in Greek asking for permission and help to rebuild the destroyed by Egyptian troops Jewish temple of the god Jhy (Ya…
As you can see in the table below the letters are quite similar. name Arabic Syriac name Arabic Syriac Alaph ا / ء ܐ Lamadh ل ܠ Beth ب…
Is Assyrian Aramaic? There is some confusion as to what is Assyrian and Aramaic. Assyrian was a dialect of Akkadian (-the other being Babylonian) a language of the Semitic family which includes Hebrew,Arabic,Aramaic and othe…
Is Aramaic the oldest language in the world? Aramaic is the oldest language of the Middle East more accurately older even than Arabic and Hebrew. Nevertheless Aramaic is indeed one of the oldest written and spoken languages …
