O.T and N.T. Aramaic

[Paul Younan]

... if you can get past the extremely plene and unorthodox orthography...

I can't. Which is one reason I never bothered to study it (the other, admittedly, is because we consider them unorthodox in person as well as in speech). <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->

This is one dialect (and even their own alphabet) that I would agree with Distazo that it's more akin to Italian vs Spanish. Their speech is that odd to every other group of Aramaic speakers.

+Shamasha