aramaic village maalula syria

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Sunset view to Saint Takla church and monastery in Maalula ancient aramaic village at Syria Royalty Free Stock Photo

Sunset view to Maalula ancient aramaic village, Syria Royalty Free Stock Photo

Maloula or Maalula, christian village in the Rif Dimash, Syria Royalty Free Stock Photo

Maalula, Syria, Monastery and Christian village. Damascus, 2004 Royalty Free Stock Photo

Aramaic is a Semitic language belonging to the Afroasiatic language family. Within this family, Aramaic belongs to the Semitic subfamily, and more specifically, is a part of the Northwest Semitic group of languages, which also includes Canaanite languages such as Hebrew and Phoenician. Aramaic script was widely adopted for other languages and is ancestral to both the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets. During its 3,000-year history, Aramaic has served variously as a language of administration of empires and as a language of divine worship. It was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period (539 BCE Ã¢â¬â 70 CE), was the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, was the language spoken by Jesus, and is the main language of the Talmud.