Translation of the classic children's book by Janosch (Horst Eckert), which was awarded the “German Youth Literature Prize” into Aramaic. Aramaic is a Semitic language that originated in ancient Syria and Mesopotamia. New Aramaic Surayt (here in the dialect of Tur Abdin) is still spoken today by around 300,000 speakers, mostly in the western diaspora.
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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.