This is great. I attended a mass in Aramaic in Sweden many years ago. It had such an effect on me. I still get this feeling when I listen to our father in Aramaic. I wanted to learn Aramaic when I teached in a Swedish school. But there where only one young teacher from Syria who knew Aramaic. Many of my K9 students were arabic speaking sons of immigrants. So I thought I try to learn Arabic instead. I came to be able to read Arabic but I could never learn to speak Arabic. I learned the first Surah of the Quran to be able to pray with my Aleppo neighbors. I found you after I found the Our Father prayer in Aramaic. I have been looking at Sanskrit these last few months. You have made me curious to learn more about Aramaic. Thank you so much! PS. I hope google translate will add Aramaic.

Very informative as always, much appreciated! wasn't able to watch all of your new content. I still have to! Please keep it up :)

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

9 ай бұрын

Thanks to you Sanharib-jan. Take your time and thanks for your support.

My relationship with Aramaic is becoming interesting. Old and Imperial would be relevant for my field of studies, Syriac for my edification and a possible translation spree. We have only two more or less active translating Syriacists in Finland working on the Fathers, so there would be a niche right there...

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

9 ай бұрын

One problem we face is that many of our language studies are cut off around the time of Second Temple Judaism, so unless one is in a language-focused program, they may not go into the language of Late Antiquity like Syriac or even Targumic Aramaic. I have tried to approach Aramaic as one language with many sub-varieties (which is true), that way I cross-train through all the different dialects. You may be living the dream if you're in Finland and can enjoy nature, sauna, ice hockey, and a career in Semitics!

@katathoombz

9 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorMichaelWingert this is the first time I've seen such a holistic approach to Aramaic and now I wonder why it's so rare. We apparently need a common Aramaics program to meet this need! The dream is in the making at least - hopefully I don't need to move to Germany to make it true :D

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

9 ай бұрын

@@katathoombz Between the channel and my work at Agora University, I'm building something unique--but important!

@katathoombz

9 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorMichaelWingert thank you for your work - all good, true and beautiful be with it!

Great video. "Fonts" is exactly what we're dealing with. And dialect accents. It would be as if people in Georgia spelling out their accent and using a different font for English vs Michigan. Imagine if each state had their own font of English. I love when you read the Eastern Aramaic then the Western side by side. I've studied the Eastern Aramaic for 30yrs so when I hear the Western, the "O"s really stand out to me because Im used to the "A" sound. And I see the font difference too. ◇ Love your work.

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for all the kind feedback. Lucky for the people from Georgia that they have a font by their name already. Now we need to get one for Michigan and call it #GoBlue

@royalcreations3970

4 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorMichaelWingert Go Blue font! 🏈There ya go! 🤣

Very informative, i learned something new. I did not know that Aramaic encompasses various fonts, which I thought were different languages.

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

6 ай бұрын

Excellent. Hopefully it is empowering if you're learning Aramaic or you ever decide to take up a study of it. Thanks for the feedback.

Hello! I hope you can help me. For many years I’ve been looking for how to write my last name in Aramaic. My last name is Zuta and I know it's an Aramaic word. I hope you can help me or guide me. thank you so much

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

9 ай бұрын

Here is how I'd write it (going from right to left): ܙܘܬܐ

@Marizu65

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!@@ProfessorMichaelWingert

Taudi Malfono Michael, kitli ha shuwolo, kebokh meshgolat Suryoyo (Oromoyo)?

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

3 ай бұрын

Bshayno ahouno. Een. Mijghol-no Surayt ushmo. Ko fohamno leshono kthovonoyo tow men Turoyo, u yawmoith ono ko mijgholno leshono madhenHoyo, meTul iqarthaydi kitloh noshe ghalabe me Khabur.

ܬܰܘܕܺܝ ܣܰܓܺܝ

Why did you decide not to introduce the term abjad?

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

9 ай бұрын

I might use that term if I'm discussing alphabets more broadly. In the Aramaic context, I have a habit of only using the 'abgad' as an acronym when teaching the specific letters of the alphabet. (Are you familiar with that tradition?) Any suggestions to improve my teaching or benefit my students is welcome! Perhaps I should put together a video on the alphabet more generally.

Isn't the correct term for a consonantal writing system an "Abjad?" (Also, to study at Uni, you also need to be a student at a university).

@ProfessorMichaelWingert

9 ай бұрын

Abgad (or the Arabic version "Abjad") is one way consonantal alphabets have been referred to in the last few decades. The term is fine enough to use. I don't have a problem (as such... but many can nitpick) with the term, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it is the "correct" term.

@daviydviljoen9318

9 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorMichaelWingert oh I see... (I'm just an insufferable pedant). I'm enjoying these videos, by the way.