Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Spoken in	Palestine
Extinct	7 century AD
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Western Aramaic Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Writing system	Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`jpa`

The Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, also called Galilean Aramaic, was a Western Aramaic language spoken by the Jews in Palestine in the early first millennium. Its closest relatives are the Samaritan Aramaic and Christian Palestinian Aramaic. The language is notable for being that spoken by Jesus.^[1]

After the defeat of the Bar-Kochba revolt in 135 AD, the center of Jewish learning in the land of Israel moved to Galilee. With the Arab conquest of the country in the 7th Century, Arabic gradually replaced this language.

The main text in it is the Jerusalem Talmud, which is still studied in Jewish religious schools and academically, although not as widely as the Babylonian Talmud. The language also appears in early works of Kabbalah, such as the Zohar and its Tikkunim.

Bibliography

Levias, Caspar (1986). A Grammar of Galilean Aramaic. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. ISBN 0873340302.

References

^ "'Passion' Stirs Interest in Aramaic". National Public Radio. 25 February 2004. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1697899. Retrieved 3 September 2011. "Jesus would have spoken the local dialect, referred to by scholars as Palestinian Jewish Aramaic, which was the form common to that region, Amar says."