Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

[3] Vocalized Aramaic texts with which Jews are familiar, from the Tanakh and the siddurim, are of limited usefulness for this purpose, as they are in different dialects.[4] Talmudic Aramaic bears all the marks of being a specialist language of study and legal argumentation like Law French[citation needed] rather than a vernacular mother tongue,[citation needed] and continued in use for these purposes long after Judeo-Arabic languages had become used in daily life.It has developed a battery of technical logic terms such as tiyuvta "conclusive refutation" and tiqu "undecidable moot point", which are still used in Jewish legal writings, including those in other languages, and have influenced modern Hebrew.ַ ני‎[23] נַטְרַנִי‎ he supervised me[24] נֵיעָרְבִינְהוּ וְנִכְתְּבִינְהוּ There are six major verb stems or verbal patterns (binyanim) in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.However, the majority of those who are familiar with it, namely Orthodox Jewish students of Talmud, are given no systematic instruction in the language, and are expected to "sink or swim" in the course of their Talmudic studies, with the help of some informal pointers showing similarities and differences with Hebrew.
Incantation bowl inscribed in Babylonian Aramaic, using Hebrew square-script , dated between 400 and 800, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland .
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