Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
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| Jewish Aramaic | |
|---|---|
| Region | Levant |
| Ethnicity | Jews |
| Era | 150 BCE – 1200 CE |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Dialects | |
| Aramaic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jpa |
| Glottolog | gali1269 |
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic also known as Jewish Western Aramaic or Palestinian Jewish 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 the dialects 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.
Grammar
Orthography
י, ו, א, ה are used to denote vowels. וו and יי are also used as replacements for their singular counterparts in the middle of words.[2]
Sample text
| JPA[3] | English[3] |
|---|---|
| בת גבר אביינוס דאתרה | The daughter of an important man of the place |
| לית אפשר לאבילא למיכל מיניה | It is impossible for the mourner to eat from it |
| דחסיר אבר או יתיר אבר | Lacking a limb or having an extra limb |
See also
- Christian Palestinian Aramaic
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
- Mandaic language
- Samaritan Aramaic language
- Western Neo-Aramaic
References
- 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.
- ^ Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic [Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic]. Oxford University Press. 1924. p. 11.
- ^ ISBN 965-226-101-7.)
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Sources
- Dalman, Gustaf (1905). Grammatik des jüdisch-palästinischen Aramäisch (2nd ed.). Leipzig: Leipzig, Hinrichs.
- Caspar Levias (1986). A Grammar of Galilean Aramaic. ISBN 0-87334-030-2.
- Beyer, Klaus (1986). The Aramaic Language: Its Distribution and Subdivisions. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 9783525535738.
- Gzella, Holger (2015). A Cultural History of Aramaic: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Islam. Leiden-Boston: Brill. ISBN 9789004285101.
- Sokoloff, Michael (1990). A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press. ISBN 9789652261014.
- Sokoloff, Michael (2003). A Dictionary of Judean Aramaic. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press. ISBN 9789652262615.
- Sokoloff, Michael (2012a). "Jewish Palestinian Aramaic". The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. Berlin-Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 610–619. ISBN 9783110251586.
- Stevenson, William B. (1924). Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9781725206175.