Christian Aramaic

Christian Aramaic

The Aramaic language is of historical importance to Christians, Jews and Mandaeans. The use of the language among Christians can be divided into four distinct areas:
* the Aramaic of JesusJesus most probably spoke a western Jewish variety of Aramaic as his mother tongue.
* Christian Palestinian Aramaic — a variety of western Aramaic that developed from pagan varieties in the Jordan Valley region.
* Syriac — a variety of eastern Aramaic spoken in northern Mesopotamia that became the literary and liturgical language of Syriac Christianity.
* modern vernacular Christian Aramaic — a number of Neo-Aramaic languages developed from older colloquial Aramaic varieties and became influenced by Syriac. Still spoken to this day, Western Neo-Aramaic is the only western variety to survive, whereas Christians speak a number of varieties of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic.


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