The Age of the Peshitta

[SteveCaruso]

So let's see. My ancestors in the Assyrian empire spoke Imperial Aramaic. Then they spoke, according to your classification, "Syriac", and today we speak Neo Aramaic. (I've condensed the timeline a bit)

I didn't develop it, so it's not "my classification," akhi.

Some is even more round-about. Dobe is a Western, Northeastern, Central, Eastern Aramaic language, part of the Leshanid Noshan cluster which roughly translates to "Our Language" which originally was an isolate from an offshoot of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic mixed with later Literary Aramaic whose prior autonym was Aramith. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->