Picture dictionary: My first thousand words in Aramaic
More about the language
An Afroasiatic (Semitic) language with over 3,000 years of history, once the lingua franca of the Middle East. Today it exists mainly in the form of Neo-Aramaic dialects (e.g., Surayt/Turoyo) spoken by Christian minorities in southeastern Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and worldwide in the diaspora. Critically endangered.