You just proven you're wrong
There were many languages that served as 'Lingua Franca', proofs they are or were living languages. Let's see: Middle-East & Mediterranean:
Nearly extinct:
#Aramaic
#Latin
Living languages:
#Greek
#Hebrew 3200 years old, only Canaanite languages still used
#Arabic
Finally made the connection between Imperial #Aramaic לחן 'temple servant', feminine לחנה,* and Biblical and later Aramaic לְחֵנָה 'concubine', 'wench' or something like that.
* That's 𐡋𐡇𐡍 and 𐡋𐡇𐡍𐡄 for my fellow Unicode freaks
Plates and tracings from book
From a set of about 50 mostly #Aramaic graffiti from Hama, Syria, before the Assyrians destroyed it in 720 BCE. These two write place names: Hama itself (Hamath), in pretty old-fashioned letters (c. 925–850?), and Qarqar, site of the famous 853 BCE battle between the Assyrians & a western coalition.
I'm learning #Akkadian, and whatever happy neurochemical is prompted by recognizing old friends, I love that seeing a cognate for a term I already know in a different Semitic language triggers the same response.
eqlum = field
Why hello, old חקל!
šemûm
Good to see you again, שמע!
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Queen Zenobia's Last Look Upon Palmyra (1888) by Herbert Gustave Schmalz. The 3rd century ruler of the short-lived Palmyrene Empire challenged the Roman Empire. She reigned over the Levant, much of Anatolia, northern Iraq, northwest Arabia and Egypt.
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Table with Jewish (LXX, Rabbinic), Syriac, Samaritan, and Arabic letter names. The reconstructed forms are *ʾā́lap; *bēt; *gī́mal; *dā́lat; *hē; *wāw; *zay(n); *ḥēt; *ṭēt; *yōd, *yōt; *kap; *lā́mad, *lā́bad; *mīm, *mēm; *nūn; *simkat; *ʿayn; *pē; *ṣādē; *qōp; *rēš; *šīn; *tāw.
Hey, I reconstructed some #Aramaic letter names! Going back to around 500 BCE, I guess. The similarity to #Greek is usually explained via #Phoenician, but we don't actually have any Phoenician letter names AFAIK.
#TIL "the LORD of Hosts" (𐡉𐡄𐡄 𐡑𐡁𐡀𐡕, [yh]h ṣbʾt) is attested as a divine name on an #Aramaic ostracon from Elephantine. (First line, starting with the second 𐡄.)
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Imperative (ms.) ʾəḥod or ʾeḥod ʾəkul or ʾekul ʾəmar or ʾemar ʾizel or ʾezel
Do we know why Targumic #Aramaic has אִיזֵל for the imperative 'go' and not אְזֵל**? Dissimilation? ASsimilation?
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As I have noted in the past, there's a picturesque image in Talmudic #Aramaic: "istra belagina kish kish karya," a coin in an empty jar makes a lot of noise.
The classic Hebrew phrase for "much ado about nothing" has a nice rhyme: "mehuma raba `al lo meuma" (or "`al lo davar", but no rhyme there)
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Galilean Aramaic
Steve Caruso recently created a site with his Galilean Aramaic grammar: galileanaramaic.com
Also: learn.galileanaramaic.com
I've been checking it out a bit over the past few days and enjoying it. I figure some of y'all might like it as well. :)
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Biblical #Aramaic phrase of the day: עַתִּיק יוֹמַיָּא ʕattīq yōmayyā (indefinite: עַתִּיק יוֹמִין ʕattīq yōmīn)
First, the text mentions 𐢘𐢊𐢅 {𐢃}[𐢕𐢌] 𐢃𐢗𐢑𐢕𐢞𐢔 pḥd {b}[ny] bʿlntn, which Nehmé reads as 'the tribal group [of] the sons of Bʿlntn'. pḥd is then interpreted as #Arabic faḫḏ-, something like a clan. If so, that's a previously unknown Arabic loanword in Nabataean #Aramaic.
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Levantine #Arabic uses ʕala, ʕa- for both 'on' and 'to', like #Aramaic ʕal. Pat-El and Stokes don't discuss this (I think, quickly scanned the paper), but seems like a good candidate for a substrate feature? The same use of ʕal for 'to' can be found in Aramaic-influenced #Hebrew, like in Jeremiah.
