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Please note the modern Assyrian language is not directly related to the old Assyrian language that was used on the tablets at the time of Ashurbanipal. Modern A
by idoubtit 8y ago
Please note the modern Assyrian language is not directly related to the old Assyrian language that was used on the tablets at the time of Ashurbanipal. Modern Assyrian derives from the Aramean, which became the vernacular language in most of the Near East during the first millenium BC. The written Assyrian language of tablet derived from the Akkadian, with a few traces of the Sumerian language. All of these were semitic languages, so they had similarities, except for the Sumerian which is an isolate.
- klipt 8y ago> Modern Assyrian derives from the Aramean From Wikipedia it seems Aramean refers to the people, their language was Aramaic.
- kingofpandora 8y agoIt's complicated ... But as the previous poster said what is called Assyrian today is indeed derived from ancient Aramean rather than ancient Assyrian. The real contention is that the same group of modern people today can't decide what their ancestry is: Assyrian or Aramean. They fight about it a lot.