Aramaic Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Eastern dialects=== {{Main|Eastern Aramaic languages}} [[File:Mandaic.jpg|right|thumb|[[Mandaic language|Mandaic]] [[Incantation bowl|magical "demon trap"]]]] In the eastern regions (from Mesopotamia to Persia), dialects like Palmyrene Aramaic and Arsacid Aramaic gradually merged with the regional vernacular dialects, thus creating languages with a foot in Achaemenid and a foot in regional Aramaic. In the [[Kingdom of Osroene]], founded in 132 BCE and centred in [[Edessa, Mesopotamia|Edessa]] (Urhay), the regional dialect became the official language: Edessan Aramaic (Urhaya), that later came to be known as [[Syriac language|Classical Syriac]]. On the upper reaches of the [[Tigris]], East Mesopotamian Aramaic flourished, with evidence from the regions of [[Hatra]] and [[Assur]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lai8CgAAQBAJ&dq=assyrian+hatran+aramaic&pg=PA126 | title=Semitic Languages in Contact | isbn=9789004300156 | last1=Butts | first1=Aaron | date=29 September 2015 | publisher=BRILL }}</ref> [[Tatian|Tatian the Assyrian]] (or Syrian), the author of the gospel harmony the [[Diatessaron]] came from [[Adiabene]] (Syr. ''Beth-Hadiab''),<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A09WDwAAQBAJ&dq=tatian+from+adiabene&pg=PA14 | title=The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity | isbn=978-0-19-256246-3 | last1=Nicholson | first1=Oliver | date=19 April 2018 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref> and perhaps wrote his work (172 AD) in East Mesopotamian rather than Classical Syriac or Greek. In Babylonia, the regional dialect was used by the Jewish community, Jewish Old Babylonian (from c. 70 AD). This everyday language increasingly came under the influence of Biblical Aramaic and Babylonian Targumic. The written form of [[Mandaic language|Mandaic]], the language of [[Mandaeism]], was descended from the Arsacid chancery script.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Häberl |first=Charles G. |title=Iranian Scripts for Aramaic Languages: The Origin of the Mandaic Script |journal=Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |issue=341 |date=February 2006 |pages=53–62 |jstor=25066933 |doi=10.7282/T37D2SGZ}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page