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

How this entity was disambiguated

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Aramaic language continuum → hasPart → Galilean Aramaic ⓘ