Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

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Jewish Aramaic
RegionLevant
Era150 BCE – 1200 CE
Afro-Asiatic
  • Western Aramaic
    • Palestinian Aramaic
      • Jewish Aramaic
Aramaic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3jpa
Glottologgali1269

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Jewish Western Aramaic was a

Herodian and Roman Judaea and adjacent lands in the late first millennium BCE, and later in Syria Palaestina and Palaestina Secunda in the early first millennium CE. This language is sometimes called Galilean Aramaic, although that term more specifically refers to its Galilean dialect
.

The most notable text in the Jewish Western Aramaic corpus is the

, is written in this language as well.


There were some differences in
dialect between Judea and Galilee, and most surviving texts are in the Galilean dialect. Michael Sokoloff has published separate dictionaries of the two dialects. A Galilean dialect of Aramaic was probably a language spoken by Jesus.[1]

Jewish Western Aramaic was gradually replaced by Arabic following the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the seventh century.

See also

References

  1. National Public Radio
    . 25 February 2004. Retrieved 3 September 2011. Jesus would have spoken the local dialect, referred to by scholars as Galilean Aramaic, which was the form common to that region, Amar says.

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