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The Canaanite languages or Canaanite dialects are one of the two subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the other being the Aramaic language. Aramaic (אַרָמָיָא Arāmāyā, Syriac: Arabic آرامية) is a Middle Eastern language or group of languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic language family. They language was spoken by the ancient […]

For the concept of a “Heavenly” language, see Divine language, also being the art of speaking words and formulating them through written text, with the agenda and aim to express the God’s Holiness. A sacred language, “holy language” (in religious context) or liturgical language is any language that is cultivated and used primarily in religious […]

(Redirected from Aramaic of Jesus) It is generally agreed by historians that Jesus and his disciples primarily spoke Aramaic (Jewish Palestinian Aramaic), the common language of Judea in the first century AD, most likely a Galilean dialect distinguishable from that of Jerusalem. The towns of Nazareth and Capernaum in Galilee, where Jesus spent most of […]