Jesus' language was Syriac

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jan 25, 2012 at 08:24

Oh and here is what Syriac is all about and it is from wikipedia

This article is about the Classical Syriac language. For contemporary "Syriac" dialects, see Northeastern Neo-Aramaic.

Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ Leššānā Suryāyā
Leššānā Suryāyā in written Syriac (Esṭrangelā script) Pronunciation /lɛʃːɑːnɑː surjɑːjɑː/ Spoken in Mesopotamia, Assyria, Roman Syria Ethnicity Assyrians/Syriacs Extinct marginalized by Arabic from the 8th century, evolved into Neo-Aramaic vernaculars around AD 1200 (conventional date). Language family

Afro-Asiatic

• Semitic
  • Central Semitic
    • Northwest Semitic
      • Aramaic
        • Eastern Aramaic
          • Syriac

Writing system Syriac abjad Language codes ISO 639-2 [[ISO639-3:syc (classical)|syc (classical)]] ISO 639-3 syc – Syriac (classical) This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains Syriac text, written from right to left in a cursive style with some letters joined. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined Syriac letters written left-to-right instead of right-to-left or other symbols instead of Syriac script.

Syriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā) is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries,^[1] Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from the 4th to the 8th centuries,^[2] the classical language of Edessa, preserved in a large body of Syriac literature.

It became the vehicle of Syriac Christianity and culture, spreading throughout Asia as far as the Indian Malabar Coast and Eastern China,^[3] and was the medium of communication and cultural dissemination for Arabs and, to a lesser extent, Persians. Primarily a Christian medium of expression, Syriac had a fundamental cultural and literary influence on the development of Arabic,^[4] which replaced it towards the end of the 8th century. Syriac remains the liturgical language of Syriac Christianity.

Syriac is a Middle Aramaic language, and as such a language of the Northwestern branch of the Semitic family.

Syriac is written in the Syriac alphabet, a derivation of the Aramaic alphabet.

How come you did not know that?

And are you aware that the origin of the Arabic alphabet is from Syriac alphabet? would you like to know more? Or are you busy casting spells?

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