11-03-2012, 02:45 PM
Time to catch up on this thread while there's breathing room from the hurricane madness.
@Luc - Thanks. :-)
@DrawCloser - Aye I was aware of that, but thanks for bringing it up. When I get to implementing version swapping, I'm going to have the proper gamut of disclaimers and copyright notices. :-)
@distazo - The Aramaic in that video is in some ways closer to Jesus' dialect than Classical Syriac, but is still Eastern (rather than Western) as it demonstrates with its grammar. There are also a few quirks that I don't agree with. mi-'Ar`a (="From the earth") would not be confusable with mhar (="tomorrow") as they argue, because they are (for some reason) omitting all initial alefs that are preceded by prepositional prefixes. This is not proper orthography for the dialect in question as the alefs would certainly be written out.
They also have some other odd orthographical choices, such as spelling hobeyn (="our sins") as `obeyn (swapping het for 'ayin). Granted the two letters were sometimes swapped in spelling, but this is only attested in specific circumstances due to vowel placement and shifts in pronunciation (for example heywey = "snake" was often `eywey). In Galilean, "our sins/debts" would most likely be hobeynan with the suffix duplicated.
Overall, still very interesting. :-)
@Luc - Thanks. :-)
@DrawCloser - Aye I was aware of that, but thanks for bringing it up. When I get to implementing version swapping, I'm going to have the proper gamut of disclaimers and copyright notices. :-)
@distazo - The Aramaic in that video is in some ways closer to Jesus' dialect than Classical Syriac, but is still Eastern (rather than Western) as it demonstrates with its grammar. There are also a few quirks that I don't agree with. mi-'Ar`a (="From the earth") would not be confusable with mhar (="tomorrow") as they argue, because they are (for some reason) omitting all initial alefs that are preceded by prepositional prefixes. This is not proper orthography for the dialect in question as the alefs would certainly be written out.
They also have some other odd orthographical choices, such as spelling hobeyn (="our sins") as `obeyn (swapping het for 'ayin). Granted the two letters were sometimes swapped in spelling, but this is only attested in specific circumstances due to vowel placement and shifts in pronunciation (for example heywey = "snake" was often `eywey). In Galilean, "our sins/debts" would most likely be hobeynan with the suffix duplicated.
Overall, still very interesting. :-)