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.

Judeo-Syrian Arabic is a linguistic relic of Syria’s Jewish past, blending the Levantine Arabic spoken by the majority ...

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 ...

View A Decorated Song of Songs with Aramaic and Arabic Translations, Scribe Mordechai ben Baruch ben David ben Moses ben Benjamin, Baghdad, 1835 on artnet. Browse more upcoming and past Decorative Art ...

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

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 ...

Equally important has been the role of Aramaic as the oldest continuously used alphabetically written language of the world. Aramaic influenced both Arabic and Hebrew, sister Semitic languages, and ...

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 ...