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| | Syriac language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Grammar of the dialects of vernacular Syriac: as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, north-west Persia, and the Plain of Mosul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul. | | | Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (with numerous dialects) and Chaldean Neo-Aramaic are the major Christian languages. | | | It is now spoken as a first language in small, scattered communities in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Israel, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language
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| | The story of Aramaic |
| | Although Greek was the language of trade and commerce in the eastern Roman empire at the time of Jesus, it was not the language spoken by ordinary Jews in Palestine. | | | In fact, Syriac was still spoken by the ordinary people of Palestine many years after the time of Jesus. | | | The Assyrian envoy begins to address the people listening on the wall of Jerusalem in the ancient Hebrew dialect, however, the local Jewish nobleman ask him to speak in Aramaic so that only they would understand what was being said, and the people on the city wall would not be able to understand. |
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http://www.srr.axbridge.org.uk/syriac_language.html
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| | From Alphonse Mingana To Christoph Luxenberg: Arabic Script & The Alleged Syriac Origins Of The Qur'an |
| | Mingana catalogued the alleged "Syriac" vocabulary in the Qur'an and argued for the widespread presence of Syriac Christianity and its important role in the origins of Islam. | | | Hence Mingana's use of phtâha, just a single vowel from Syriac, to claim that the Arabs borrowed their vowels from Syrians, is rather disingenuous. | | | Thus we see in Syriac lexicography signs of indebtedness to the Arabs, even though there is little evidence of direct imitation. |
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http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/vowel.html
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| | B.H.Cowper, The Syriac Language and Literature, Journal of Sacred Literature, New Series [Series 4] vol. 2 (1863) pp. ... |
| | Nor will the student of ecclesiastical history be disappointed, for he will meet with some 76 authors in Syriac who are otherwise unknown or not extant; and of extant historians he will find noticeable variations. | | | This cannot, however, apply with any truth to the present well-known Syriac version called the Peschito, which bears many traces of a later and, indeed, of a Christian age. | | | The school of Edessa produced several eminent men; and documents yet exist which in all probability emanated from it: and of some this is certain. |
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http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/oriental/jsl_syriac_intro.htm
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| | A Bird's Eye View of the Syriac Language and Literature |
| | The period running from the beginning of the Arab rule in the seventh century to that of the Mongols in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is described by Brock as "one of scholarly consolidation and encyclopedic effort as far as Syriac literature is concerned". | | | The Arab invasions prevented close contacts with the Greek-speaking world just when Syriac culture was at the most hellenophile stage of its history. | | | The closest immediate predecessors of Syriac, were the languages used in Palmyra (in modern Syria) and Hatra (in modern Iraq) around the time of Jesus. |
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http://www.insideassyria.com/rkvsf2/wwwboard/msgs/A_Bird_s_Eye_View_of_the_Syriac_Language_and_Literature-7DTY.html
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| | Syriac script |
| | Aramaic was once the main language of the Jews and appears in some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. | | | It is still used as a liturgical language by Christian communities in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, and is still spoken by small numbers of people in Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Armenia, Georgia and Syria. | | | Aramaic, a language which was the lingua franca of much of the Near East from about 7th century BC until the 7th century AD, when it was largely replaced by Arabic. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/syriac.htm
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| | Syriac Bible, Syriac Fonts, Syriac General Office, Syriac Learn, Syriac Reference, Syriac Software - Mac, Syriac ... |
| | Another dialect of Aramaic, generally referred to as Assyrian, is spoken by about 150,000 people in north-eastern Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and the Russia. | | | The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. | | | Syriac (or Aramaic) continued to be spoken until the rise of Islam, when it quickly gave way to the dominant influence of Arabic. |
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http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Syriac.htm
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| | MOUAWAD: The Teaching of Syriac in Lebanon: An Overview |
| | One of their last initiatives was the dubbing in Syriac of a 2-hour video film on the life of Jesus. | | | Many other associations attempt to promote Syriac studies in the context of encouraging theological studies for the laity. | | | Syriac is offered as an optional language in addition to Hebrew, Greek, and Persian and is met positively by the students because of its similarity to Arabic and its easy access for the Arabic speaking students. |
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http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol3No1/HV3N1Mouawad.html
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| | Orientalistica - Dorek - Neo-Aramaic and Neo-Syriac Language and Literature |
| | A long history of local folk tradition and the prestige of the classical heritage Classical Syriac for the Christians, Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic for the Jews left their mark on the emerging written literatures. | | | Both Jews and Christians of Iraqi Kurdistan managed to develop in different form and degree a written literary tradition in Neo-Aramaic, transmitted in manuscripts from the 16th century onwards. | | | Kurdistani Christians represent what remains in the Middle East of the glorious diffusion and splendor of the Persian Syriac Church between the 4th and 13th centuries (see, e.g.: Fiey 1965, Habbi 1966, Murre-van der Berg 1999, Van Rompay 2000, Borbone 2000). |
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http://hal9000.cisi.unito.it/wf/DIPARTIMEN/Orientalis/Attivit--d/Ricerce-fi/Dorek/literat.html_cvt.htm
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| | Phrasebase - Syriac Language Facts And Information |
| | The Assyrian group (see Assyrian Neo-Aramaic in Iraq and elsewhere) separated denominationally from the Chaldean (see Chaldean Neo-Aramaic in Iraq) and Jacobite (see Turoyo in Turkey and Syria) in the Middle Ages. | | | Neo-Eastern Aramaic languages spoken by Christians are often dubbed 'Neo-Syriac', although not directly descended from Syriac. | | | This is just for fun, base your vote on factors such as ease of learning, ease of pronouncing, the sounds and tones, how appealing it sounds, how effective and convenient it is to communicate in and express what is on your mind. |
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http://www.phrasebase.com/languages/index.php?cat=319
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| | Syriac Computing Information (Penn State) |
| | This script is particuarly associated with the Assyrian Christian, Chaldean Christian, or Syrian Christian church. | | | Otherwise Syriac is used as a liturgical language in the Syrian Christian church and related sects. | | | This script was developed for Aramaic (which is also called Syriac or Assyrian). |
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http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/syriac.html
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| | L'ORDRE ANTONIN MARONITE |
| | Their listeners were stupefied, as each heard and understood in his own language : Parthians, Medes, Elamites, Cappadocians, Egyptians, Cretans, Arabs, Romans, and the others...". | | | In effect, apart from the celebrated village of Maloulah, near to Damascus, where the inhabitants have never ceased to speak syriac, there are the Chaldean people in Iraq, and maybe still in Iran, who continue to speak this language and to teach it to their children. | | | This transcription of Arabic in syriac letters is called Karshouni. |
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http://perso.chello.fr/users/w/wal64/e-liturgie.htm
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| | Syriac language and culture |
| | A Brief Overview A few Christian denominations can claim the antiquity of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, whose foundation can be traced back to the very dawn of Christianity. | | | Syriac uses the following characters found in the Arabic block. | | | This document is intended to provide links only to sites of direct relevance to the Syrian Orthodox Church and other Oriental Orthodox Churches. |
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http://www.lonweb.org/link-syriac.htm
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| | Syriac links and bibliography |
| | This site also has many other useful Syriac studies links. | | | This text uses an ancient Syriac Peshitta version prepared by the Society between 1905 and 1920 collated from 42 ancient Syriac manuscripts. | | | This has the whole bible in the ancient Syriac Peshitta version including the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and the New Testament, (the NT has the same text and script as 1. |
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http://www.srr.axbridge.org.uk/syriac_biblio.html
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| | Syriac Bible |
| | The Syriac Old Testament is a translation from the original Hebrew and Aramaic (a different Aramaic dialect from Syriac which is known by the name 'Biblical Aramaic'). | | | The Syriac Bible is available today from the United Bible Societies. | | | The words of Christ were first transmitted in his native language, the Palestinian dialect of Aramaic, either orally or in a written form. |
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http://sor.cua.edu/Bible
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| | Lesson Two |
| | Syriac refers to the Aramaic language spoken in the Near East for over 2000 years. | | | This section is here to provide you with an introduction to the Syriac language. | | | It was the language spoken by Christ, and is the mother language of Hebrew (a dialect of Aramaic) and Arabic. |
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http://www.geocities.com/mfignatius/aramaic.html
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| | Syriac - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers |
| | Syriac is the right-to-left script that is used for the Syriac language, which belongs to the Semitic group and is mostly confined to liturgical use in Christian churches in the Middle East and in south-east India, although there are also some native speakers in the Middle East. | | | Syriac - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers | | | You can see some Unicode Syriac on Abed Dawod’s test pageand on The Lord's Prayer page. |
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http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/syriac.html
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| | Learn Assyrian (Syriac-Aramaic) OnLine |
| | Remember, as one of the first Christians (a couple years after the life of Christ), you speak one of the oldest, rarest languages in the world. | | | "Syriac-Aramaic", for there is no such thing as the language "Assyrian". | | | To say modern aramaic or modern syriac, you must be consistent and say modern hebrew, modern english, modern greek, etc. for all languages follow the law of evolution. |
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http://www.learnassyrian.com/aramaic
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| | Syriac Language |
| | The Doctrina Addai as a Paradigm of Christian Thought in Edessa in the Fifth Century. | | | Syriac is the Aramaic dialect of Edessa (= present-day Urfa, SE. | | | Professor of Semitic Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), in the University of London, 1961 until 1979. |
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http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/SYRIAC/syriac.htm
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| | Welcome to the room of shame |
| | Many experts confirm that Syriac is a very close dialect to the one spoken by Jesus Christ. | | | century called “Assyrian language” after the East-Aramean Nestorians of Hakkaria and Urmia were brainwashed by the Western missionaries to see themselves as “Assyrians”. | | | The Eastern dialect is spoken by the East-Aramean Nestorians and is since 20 |
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http://www.aramnaharaim.org/AramaicSyriac.htm
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| | Appendix: Syriac OpenType specification |
| | The "dflt" language system is used as the default if no other language specific features are defined or if the application does not support that particular language. | | | However, font developers may want to build language specific features which are supported in other applications and will be supported in future Microsoft OpenType implementations. | | | Features are encoded according to both a designated script and language system. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/syriacot/appen.htm
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| | An Aramaic Approach to the Greek Gospels for readers |
| | As noted by Matthew Black, in his respected work, An Aramaic Approach To The Gospels And Acts, "Asyndeton is, on the whole, contrary to the spirit of the Greek language." "Asyndeton is highly characteristic of Aramaic,...". | | | One can therefore conclude that the Koine Greek texts were perhaps reliant on various "Q"s, and that perhaps one was a Greek translation of an Aramaic language sayings-source* manuscript. | | | These original source texts are lost, and gone forever, yet the words they gave us are as real as the day they were spoken for us. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/6623/aramaic.htm
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| | Syriac Summer School |
| | Students are required to complete assessed examination at the end of the programme. | | | You will be given the necessary linguistic tools and language introduction all in English to pick up Syriac in a very short period of time, and continue learning it through further studies of the language. | | | One of our program facilities is that we are ready to receive participants in our courses any time during the year. |
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http://www.syriacsummerschool.com/program
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| | Syriac Bibles |
| | The "JESUS" Film, based on the Gospel of Luke, has been translated into Syriac. | | | Visit Ethnic Harvest for practical articles, stories, free demographics and resources to help your church become more effective at cross-cultural ministry. | | | Or order by phone from Campus Crusade at 1-800-432-1997. |
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http://www.ethnicharvest.org/bibles/syriac.htm
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| | SourceForge.net: Project Ayuta: Syriac Language Support |
| | The ultimate aim of this project is to add Syriac Language Support to every aspect of a GNU/Linux system. | | | Provide feedback on this page Recently changed page Site Status |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ayuta
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