#aramaic

**Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic**

“The corpus consists mostly of translations from Greek, highlighting significant lexical borrowings and idiosyncratic syntax, such as periphrastic verb constructions. The article traces evidence of Arabic substrate influence in pre-Islamic times, including phonological shifts and loanwords, reflecting interactions between Arabic- and Aramaic-speaking Christians.”_

Gzella, H. (2025) 'Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 747–770. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.27.

#History #Aramaic #Greek #Arabic #Languages #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Nonfiction #Academia #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon

**Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both?**

_”The study investigates the historical roles of Aramaic as both a lingua franca and a koine, examining its development and usage across various periods. It identifies three main contexts: as the administrative and diplomatic language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, as the religious and scholarly language of Jewish communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and as the liturgical and literary language of Syriac Christianity.”

Healey, J. (2025) 'Aramaic: lingua franca, koine, or both?,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 771–796. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.28.

#History #Aramaic #Language #OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Academia #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon

**Maaloula: Aramaic-speaking town bridging cultures between Syria, Türkiye**

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/maaloula-aramaic-speaking-town-bridging-cultures-between-syria-turkiye-117596/

#Aramaic #Culture

https://www.europesays.com/1879685/ Christian town in Syria keeps biblical language of Aramaic alive but fears for its future #Aramaic #BasharAssad #Conflicts #residents #Syria

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#Maaloula is a little Syrian village built into the rugged mountainside, located about 50 km northeast of Damascus. It is one of the last places on earth where they still speak #Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus 2000 years ago.

#SemiticLanguages

I wonder why I never thought to question whether the *Latin* names for the "books" of the Torah were the real names. Latin wasn't even a Middle Eastern language.

#Hebrew #Aramaic #CanaaniteLanguages

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"Our research pioneers an innovative methodology for generating synthetic training data tailored to Old Aramaic letters. Our pipeline synthesizes photo-realistic Aramaic letter datasets, incorporating textural features, lighting, damage, and augmentations to mimic real-world inscription diversity. Despite minimal real examples, we engineer a dataset of 250 000 training and 25 000 validation images covering the 22 letter classes in the Aramaic alphabet."

Aioanei AC, Hunziker-Rodewald RR, Klein KM, Michels DL (2024) Deep Aramaic: Towards a synthetic data paradigm enabling machine learning in epigraphy. PLOS ONE 19(4): e0299297. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299297 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReview #DOI #MachineLearning #NeuralNetworks #Algorithms #Linguistics #Aramaic #Epigraphy #AI #ArtificalIntelligence #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

"This study is the first attempt to apply the masked language modeling approach to corrupted inscriptions in Hebrew and Aramaic languages, both using the Hebrew alphabet consisting mostly of consonant symbols. In our experiments, we evaluate several transformer-based models, which are fine-tuned on the Biblical texts and tested on three different percentages of randomly masked parts in the testing corpus."

Niv Fono, Harel Moshayof, Eldar Karol, Itai Assraf, and Mark Last. 2024. Embible: Reconstruction of Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Texts Using Transformers. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, pages 846–852, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.

https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.56

#ComputationalLinguistics #Linguistics #Ancient #Hebrew #Aramaic #Language #Languages @linguistics

What Is Aramaic?

"In fact, the linguistic situation in the Iron Age Levant is quite complex, reflecting a Canaanite–Aramaic continuum with local dialects falling at various points along this spectrum—some bearing mainly Canaanite traits with little connection to Aramaic, and others leaning more toward the Aramaic end."

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/what-is-aramaic/

#Aramaic #Language #MiddleEast #Levant

"What language was the Bible written in? Specifically, what was the original language of the New Testament? While the broad concensus is that it was Greek, some have hypthosized that Syriac/Aramaic was the language of the original text. What do the experts say?" https://youtu.be/rxq6OGPTMPQ #Video #Bible #Greek #Aramaic #Language #Languages #NewTestament #Christianity #Religion @religion

An die nahöstlichen Kochkünstler aus Frankfurt: Hat jemand eine Ahnung, wo man in #Frankfurt die Gewürzmischung #Kleija kaufen kann? Gerne von der Marke Abido, wie abgebildet. Vielen Dank für die Hilfe. #aramäisch #orient #klica #klitsha #ostern #aramaic

Gzella, H. (2011). Languages from the World of the Bible. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781934078631 #OpenAccess #OA #Language #Languages #Bible #AncientNearEast #Ancient #TextualHistory #Theology #Religion #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #Academics #Ugaritic #Phoenician #Hebrew #Aramaic #Persian #Greek @bookstodon (34)

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Hey #fedivere, suggest some people to follow?

My interests:
#LGBTQ
#Transgender and #transrights
#Progressive #Judaism, culturally, spiritually, textual, and academic
#queer fashion
#Memoirs - especially for those who fall under the above groups
#Linguistics, specifically #Yiddish (my mother tongue), #Hebrew and #Aramaic (my 2nd and 3rd languages), ancient #MiddleEastern, and all #Judeo- languages
#History

And the intersections of all the above.

NOT looking for more cis-straight men.

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Idioma: #Aramaic
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#Aramaic
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George Galloway Retweeted:
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Beautiful photos of ancient Christian town of #Maaloula, #Syria, where #Aramaic is still spoken, and St. Thekla’s monastery, which jihadists tried to burn down in 2013. The town and monastery survived terrorist attacks and still stands as an important Christian heritage site. https://www.twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1261640797746802689
#Beautiful

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