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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Are the terms alcohol and kohl related? Yes, if we trace their origins. An Arabic etymological term base, the first of its kind, can provide new knowledge about Arab identity and cultural history.