Galilean Aramaic

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Galilean Aramaic is a Western Aramaic dialect historically spoken in the Galilee region during the late Second Temple and early rabbinic periods, known from Jewish religious and literary texts.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Galilean Aramaic canonical 2

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Aramaic dialect
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic dialect
Western Aramaic variety
associatedWith Galilean rabbis
early Palestinian sages
attestedIn Jerusalem Talmud
linked to: Talmud Yerushalmi

Midrashic literature
linked to: Midrash

amulets
inscriptions
rabbinic literature
synagogue inscriptions
distinctFrom Babylonian Jewish Aramaic
Judean Aramaic
Samaritan Aramaic
Syriac
hasFeature characteristic phonological shifts
distinctive vowel system
lexical items shared with other Western Aramaic dialects
specific morphological patterns
historicalStatus extinct language
influencedBy Biblical Aramaic
Hebrew
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
Aramaic languages
Northwest Semitic languages
linked to: Northwest Semitic

Semitic languages
region Galilee
Northern Palestine
linked to: northern Palestine
religiousContext Judaism
spokenIn Galilee
Land of Israel
linked to: Eretz HaKodesh

Roman province of Judea
subclassOf Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Western Aramaic
timeDepth Roman period
early Byzantine period
late Hellenistic period
usedBy Jewish communities in Galilee
usedFor legal discourse
rabbinic discussions
religious texts
usePeriod 1st century CE
2nd century CE
3rd century CE
early rabbinic period
late Second Temple period
writingSystem Aramaic alphabet
Hebrew alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aramaic language continuum hasPart Galilean Aramaic