Aramaic truly got around—even to places where no one had ever actually spoken it, in the form of its alphabet, on which both Hebrew and Arabic writing were based.

Aramaic and Arabic. The Aramaic language has had a profound influence on Arabic, particularly in the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine). Many words in modern Arabic dialects, including the ...

Damascus Countryside, SANA - The Syrian Global Society for Preserving the Aramaic Language organized on Saturday a musical event titled "Aramia 2016" in Maaloula town in Damascus Countryside that ...

Moroccan Arabic, for example, borrows from Berber, while Levantine dialects (spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Jordan) have Aramaic elements in them.

Aramaic dialects were the region's vernacular from 2,500 years ago until the sixth century, when Arabic, the language of conquering Muslims from the Arabian Peninsula, became dominant, according ...

Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ features two languages that haven't been used in common speech for centuries -- Latin and the even less familiar Aramaic. NPR's Renee ...

Part of the same Semitic language family as Arabic and Hebrew, Aramaic originated in the city-states around Damascus almost 1,000 years before Christ. It spread across the Fertile Crescent ...