The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic

[Macrobius]

Me, teaching my 20 somethings on Slack:





The two trading jargons of the Silk Road are seen even today in the middle east -- the coastal regions were Greek-speaking ('Palestinians') and the interior speakers all spoke Aramaic, the language of Iran.

Today, English/Engrish is the world's trading jargon.

 

[Macrobius]

Reminder that Syria Palestina used to be a Syrian province:

Syria Palaestina - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Syria Palaestina (literally, "Palestinian Syria";[1][2] Latin: Syria Palaestīna [ˈs̺ʏria paɫae̯s̺ˈt̪iːna];[3] Koinē Greek: Συρία ἡ Παλαιστίνη, romanized: Syría hē Palaistínē, Koine Greek: [syˈri.a (h)e̝ pa.lɛsˈt̪i.ne̝]) was the name given to the Roman province of Judea by the emperor Hadrian following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt in AD 135.[4][2][5]

Christians, of course, stood out both the revolts of AD 70 and AD 132, by migrating to Pella, a city in Indiana.

https://www.pella.com/how-to-buy/showrooms/indianapolis-72804/

Kristallnacht can be a bitch.

 

[Grug Arius]

The two trading jargons of the Silk Road are seen even today in the middle east -- the coastal regions were Greek-speaking ('Palestinians') and the interior speakers all spoke Aramaic, the language of Iran.

Aramaic is a semitic language tho...I believe it predates Greek in the area by a few centuries. Isnt it related to Phoenician? If so then it's the 'real' tongue of Palestine.

 

[Rawhide "Doug" Kobayashi]

Me, teaching my 20 somethings on Slack:



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The two trading jargons of the Silk Road are seen even today in the middle east -- the coastal regions were Greek-speaking ('Palestinians') and the interior speakers all spoke Aramaic, the language of Iran.

Today, English/Engrish is the world's trading jargon.

Just a minor correction: Aramaic has never been a widely spoken language in Iran. While it was spoken as a lingua franca in the Achæmenid Empire, this generally was in the satrapies and not metropolitan Persia itself, which as far as I know has only continuously spoken Persian since ancient times (even to the detriment of Arabic and Mongol, which could never properly subdue the language and replace it--and not through lack of trying, e.g, Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf's Arabisation campaign).
Only Chaldeans, who immigrated to Iran during the Achæmenid rule, still speak it on a regular basis today.

 

[Macrobius]

@Wodwo : indeed. I should have said 'which was the Trading Jargon of the Seleucid Empire in the Hellenistic Era'

Also 'Hellenist' is someone who, not speaking native Greek, none the less speaks Greek. This view is of course a bit Hellenic-centric, as Koine was a 'perfectly valid linguistic dialect' in its own right, though like global English today, it had a very wide range of registers from 'modelled on the Attic classics' to 'gutter' and 'broken'.

Cyrus the Great was, of course, a proto-type 'Messiah' to both Christians and Jews -- and I suspect (but do not happen to know) would be highly regarded in Islam as well.

 

[Grug Arius]

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