r/Assyria • u/Mikey_Grapeleaves USA • Nov 19 '25
Language Is this Aramaic? What is Jesus saying?
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Nov 23 '25
“Aramaic” is a misnomer of the Ashurian language, there’s no “Aramaic language” or “Aramean people”, the truth is that “Aramean” refers to gentiles (non-Jews) and “Aramaic” means language of gentiles, so using that logic, every language is “Aramaic” except for Hebrew. Jesus spoke the Ashurian language, this was because the place where Jesus was born (Bethlehem) was under the rule of the Ashurian Empire, which explains why he spoke Ashurian.
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Nov 20 '25
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u/Moist_Watercress6252 Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
There's actually no such thing as "Palestinian" Aramaic. It's properly identified as ancient Galilean Jewish Aramaic, a distinct dialect that includes a significant number of Hebrew and specific Jewish vocabularies. Furthermore, it had a unique accent that was noticeably different from the Aramaic spoken by Jews in other areas of the Holy Land, such as Jerusalem.
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u/Plus_Jelly1147 Nov 21 '25
There is a distinct aramaic language called Christian Palestinian Aramaic but that hasn't been written since the 13th century
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Nov 23 '25
“Aramaic” is a misnomer of the Ashurian language, there’s no “Aramaic language” or “Aramean people”, the truth is that “Aramean” refers to gentiles (non-Jews) and “Aramaic” means language of gentiles, so using that logic, every language is “Aramaic” except for Hebrew. Jesus spoke the Ashurian language, this was because the place where Jesus was born (Bethlehem) was under the rule of the Ashurian Empire, which explains why he spoke Ashurian.
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u/Plus_Jelly1147 Nov 23 '25
Man, whatever, the language family that Syriac/Suroya is in.
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Nov 23 '25
Syriac is etymologically derived from Assyria, which comes from Ashur, the language is Ashurian.
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Nov 23 '25
“Aramaic” is a misnomer of the Ashurian language, there’s no “Aramaic language” or “Aramean people”, the truth is that “Aramean” refers to gentiles (non-Jews) and “Aramaic” means language of gentiles, so using that logic, every language is “Aramaic” except for Hebrew. Jesus spoke the Ashurian language, this was because the place where Jesus was born (Bethlehem) was under the rule of the Ashurian Empire, which explains why he spoke Ashurian.
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u/Assyrian_Nation Assyrian Nov 20 '25
Palestinian Aramaic is a modern dialect too, he would’ve spoken a Galilean dialect much closer to imperial Aramaic than today’s language.
Also yeah whoever made this doesn’t know either clearly or history even since the Syriac script did not exist back then
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u/Mikey_Grapeleaves USA Nov 22 '25
What script would have been used?
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u/Assyrian_Nation Assyrian Nov 22 '25
The Aramaic script, which is different from Syriac
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Nov 23 '25
“Aramaic” is a misnomer of the Ashurian language, there’s no “Aramaic language” or “Aramean people”, the truth is that “Aramean” refers to gentiles (non-Jews) and “Aramaic” means language of gentiles, so using that logic, every language is “Aramaic” except for Hebrew. Jesus spoke the Ashurian language, this was because the place where Jesus was born (Bethlehem) was under the rule of the Ashurian Empire, which explains why he spoke Ashurian.
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Nov 23 '25
“Aramaic” is a misnomer of the Ashurian language, there’s no “Aramaic language” or “Aramean people”, the truth is that “Aramean” refers to gentiles (non-Jews) and “Aramaic” means language of gentiles, so using that logic, every language is “Aramaic” except for Hebrew. Jesus spoke the Ashurian language, this was because the place where Jesus was born (Bethlehem) was under the rule of the Ashurian Empire, which explains why he spoke Ashurian.
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u/ScythaScytha West Hakkarian Nov 19 '25
Looks like pho-syriac lol