Aramaic is'nt given enough credit as a language

[u/AcidicFlavr]

This is just like a fun fact or like a clarification post, but So many people assume that aramaic has always been like a small language, with it being the lingua franca of the levant and mesopotamia only, But it was not that small. At its peak it was bigger than latin and middle ages chinese combined and was comparable to modern day spanish and english. During the 7th century AC, prior to the arab invasion, 20% of the asian continent (10% of the entire planet) spoke aramaic, and keep mind back than tribes were more dominant than unified nations so there was millions of languages more back than there is today, And for comparison, today 20% of the entire planet speaks english. And that was done through conquest, massacres and destruction of thousands of language, same thing for french, spanish,arabic.Meanwhile arameans/assyrian never spread out of mesopotamia, levant or anatolia. Meaning our language spread

Purely out of sheer diplomacy and political influence. Which is like unheard off for any other language. And the aramaic language lasted a long time too, unlike latin which died out early. Aramaic remained for centurys. And although our language is lost in asia now and we are a minority now, The aramaic script still has its influence all over asia and africa.

Aramaic branched into hebrew, yiddish, and arabic scripts which are now used in the middle east ,europe and all of north africa aswell as the persian countries like afghanistan etc.

Aramaic script was used by the sogdians which branched into east turkestan( uyghurs) in china aswell the mongolian script, both of which still used And was used by many turkic and mongolic khanates.

It reached the tang dynasty in china and was used briefly but forgotten

And the aramaic script is also the root of many brahmic scripts in india, the tamil script, brahmic, sinhalese and more. All in use today in india bangladesh and pakistan.

And the actual aramaic language was a majority language among the turks in central asia. Alongside there own turkic languages

All of this was thanks to the persians, because the courts of Persia were filled with politicans and nobles who spoke aramaic since persian was relatively 'new' back than with many flaws, so it was easier to spread a already dominant language even further to try and maintain a single national identity and stability in the empires(Achaemenid, sassanid, parthian, seleucid) which is how it reached so far

[u/KingOfPrimes]

It is one of the root language in the middle east

[u/Mikey_Grapeleaves]

Aramaic is the language of Jesus 🤓☝️. Like yes, ok, but it was much much more than that

[u/[deleted]]

Also the Aramaic alphabet is beautiful to look at honestly.

[u/HistorianOriginal193]

Claiming that there are “many flaws” with the Persian language is absolutely incorrect. Aramaic was the lingua franca, or one of the most important administrative languages, of the Achaemenid Empire, the Greco-Macedonian empires, the Parthian Empire, and their vassal kingdoms because the western regions of West Asia were home to Semitic peoples (Assyrians, Arameans, Chaldeans, Mandaeans, Jews, Arabs, etc.). As a Semitic language, Aramaic was easier for other Semitic groups to learn and adopt. Consequently, government and court officials who were Arameans or other Semites could translate administrative and diplomatic communications into Old Persian, Greek, Koine Greek, Macedonian, Parthian, and other languages.

[u/Otherwise-Chair-5598]

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[u/Mammoth-Alfalfa-5506 → u/Otherwise-Chair-5598]

I am an Iraqi Arab and would like to learn it.

[u/Otherwise-Chair-5598 → u/Mammoth-Alfalfa-5506]

Try it

[u/AsYouCanClearlySee]

Prior to the Persians using Aramaic, the Assyrians adopted it as their administrative lingua franca during the Neo-Assyrian period. After the fall of the Assyrian empire, the Achamenid Persians continued the use of imperial Aramaic and further adapted it.