The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic by the oldest Christian community

[TestifyToTruth]

 

[Tigger45]

Love it, that’s awesome. We are blessed to have a Maronite Church in our area. I love to hear the Eucharist consecrated in Jesus’ native language.

 

[coffeeandprayer]

Thanks for sharing these Aramaic prayers! My first language is Aramaic, truly a beautiful language!

 

[faroukfarouk]

Thanks for sharing these Aramaic prayers! My first language is Aramaic, truly a beautiful language!

Hi; I think it's spoken in some villages in Syria, right?

 

[coffeeandprayer]

Hi; I think it's spoken in some villages in Syria, right?

Yes, Aramaic is spoken in some villages in Syria. They are Assyrians from Syria.

 

[faroukfarouk]

Yes, Aramaic is spoken in some villages in Syria. They are Assyrians from Syria.

You must be multilingual then; as well as good English and Aramaic, you probably speak standard Arabic (and maybe even some French from Lebanon next door? and Syria itself was administered by France at one stage).

As well as your musical appreciation, your children will have potentially a good language heritage, right?

 

[coffeeandprayer]

You must be multilingual then; as well as good English and Aramaic, you probably speak standard Arabic (and maybe even some French from Lebanon next door? and Syria itself was administered by France at one stage).

As well as your musical appreciation, your children will have potentially a good language heritage, right?

I was born in Iraq to an Assyrian family. My first language is Aramaic. Unfortunately like most kids now a days I stopped going to Sunday school at the Assyrian church, where we were learning to read and write in Aramaic... I speak Arabic and Greek (read and write in Greek as well)... as well as English. My husband is Armenian from Turkey... so we try to teach our kids everything we know!

 

[faroukfarouk]

I was born in Iraq to an Assyrian family. My first language is Aramaic. Unfortunately like most kids now a days I stopped going to Sunday school at the Assyrian church, where we were learning to read and write in Aramaic... I speak Arabic and Greek (read and write in Greek as well)... as well as English. My husband is Armenian from Turkey... so we try to teach our kids everything we know!

An excellent linguistic heritage! and there's also a big Armenian community in Toronto East End, partly centred on Victoria Park and 401.

(But I guess we are getting off topic.)

 

[coffeeandprayer]

An excellent linguistic heritage! and there's also a big Armenian community in Toronto East End, partly centred on Victoria Park and 401.

(But I guess we are getting off topic.)

That is so awesome to know! Thanks for telling me, I honestly had no idea. How do you know this area? Are you from Toronto?

 

[faroukfarouk]

That is so awesome to know! Thanks for telling me, I honestly had no idea. How do you know this area? Are you from Toronto?

No, I don't live in Toronto; but we are in Ontario.

 

[coffeeandprayer]

No, I don't live in Toronto; but we are in Ontario.

That is very cool! Your name is Middle Eastern, are you Arabic?

 

[faroukfarouk]

That is very cool! Your name is Middle Eastern, are you Arabic?

No; but Egypt did have King Farouk! (Al Mamlaka Al-Missriya; for those who don't know, Kingdom of Egypt.)

 

[coffeeandprayer]

No; but Egypt did have King Farouk! (Al Mamlaka Al-Missriya; for those who don't know, Kingdom of Egypt.)

Haha, yes! I knew its an Egyptian name. Blessings to you and your family, brother!

 

[faroukfarouk]

Haha, yes! I knew its an Egyptian name. Blessings to you and your family, brother!

Ty

Hope and dh had a good Lord's Day.

 

[coffeeandprayer]

Ty

Hope and dh had a good Lord's Day.

Blessings to you and your family, brother! Sorry, I cannot reply to you on my wall for a reason!

 

[NIrelandGillian]

This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.

Gillian

 

[faroukfarouk]

My first language is Aramaic. Unfortunately like most kids now a days I stopped going to Sunday school at the Assyrian church, where we were learning to read and write in Aramaic... I speak Arabic and Greek (read and write in Greek as well)... as well as English. ...

So do you have any Assyrian books to read if you eventually want to get into reading it again? (Re. Armenian, it looks very distinct...)

 

[coffeeandprayer]

My grandfather, owns an amazing library of really good old Aramaic books... but I cannot read them, unfortunately. This makes me very sad.

 

[faroukfarouk]

My grandfather, owns an amazing library of really good old Aramaic books... but I cannot read them, unfortunately. This makes me very sad.

I guess a lot of them would have been printed in Iraq or Syria.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I think it's very important to keep up a heritage language.