ali-allure asked: Can you translate Aramaic?
Depends. If it’s an old script, it can be more difficult, but I have my sources!
Anonymous asked: are you planning to go see 'the beatles: the lost concert' film?
No, I wasn’t planning to. :)
![“Hebrew language, Semitic language of the Northern Central (also called Northwestern) group; it is closely related to Phoenician and Moabite, with which it is often placed by scholars in a Canaanite subgroup. Spoken in ancient times in Palestine, Hebrew was supplanted by the western dialect of Aramaic beginning about the 3rd century bc; the language continued to be used as a liturgical and literary language, however. It was revived as a spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the official language of Israel.” -Encyclopædia Britannica
“The designation “Hebrew language” for the language in which are written the Old Testament (with the exception of Ezra iv. 8-vi. 18; Dan. ii. 4 [after the fourth word]-vii. 38; Jer. x. 11; and a proper name in Gen. xxxi. 47), part of the Apocryphal and pseudepigraphic writings, and the greatest part of later Jewish literature, is first found in Hellenistic literature (Prologue to Ecclesiasticus [Sirach]; Josephus, “Ant.” i. 1, § 2; Rev. ix. 11). The same designation is frequently used by Hellenistic authors to denote the Aramaic language spoken at a later time by the “Hebrews,” as the Jews were called by non-Jewish writers. In Hebrew literature the term is first met in the Mishnah (Yad. v. 4; Giṭ, ix. 8); Biblical writers use the expression “the language of Canaan” (Isa. xix. 18) or “the Jews’ language” (II Kings xviii. 26, 28; comp. Isa. xxxvi. 11, 13; Neh. xiii. 24; comp. also the modern use of “Yiddish”). More frequently, however, the language is called in later Jewish literature “the Holy Tongue,” to distinguish it from the Aramaic vernacular or other “profane languages” spoken in later times by the Jews (Targ. Yer. to Gen. xxxi. 11; Soṭah vii. 11). This designation seems to be an abbreviation of * “lishan bet ḳudsha” = “the language of the sanctuary” (Targ. pseudo-Jonathan to Gen. xxxi. 47). The Assyrians called Hebrew “the language of the west country” (comp. Hastings, “Dict. Bible,” iii. 25).”-Jewish Encyclopedia
Also, Akkadian was replaced by Aramaic in the ancient Assyrian Empire due to its simpler alphabet. Aramaic does borrow Akkadian words.
** lishan bet ḳudsha= To me as an Assyrian, that translates to “Language of the Holy”.
lazersilberstein:
assyrian-prince:
Alphabet Family Tree
Source? I’m pretty sure Hebrew predates or is contemporary to Aramaic. Hebrew is closer to Akkadian than Aramaic, too, I believe.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m37r70diQn1qkwwlqo1_250.jpg)
Depends. If it’s an old script, it can be more difficult, but I have my sources!
No, I wasn’t planning to. :)
