Members of the Syriac Orthodox Church speak Aramaic and their liturgy is in Aramaic, too. Yet today, the language is endangered. This, despite Aramaic being the language that most historians agree ...

Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic. While Christ preached sermons and made his cry from the cross in a dialect spoken in Roman Palestine, another dialect of Aramaic developed further east in Edessa ...

Reviewed Work: The Story of Akhikar from the Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Old Turkish, Greek and Slavonic Versions by F. C. Conybeare, J. Rendel ...

To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic was made the second official language in 752 B.C. The Empire chancelleries adopted a simple standard form of the Aramaic for ...