Do any of you guys know any ancient languages and know how to speak them?
>pic related its sabean script
It's possible to read hanzi from long ago.
The one true advantage over alphabet.
Ge'ez and barely, it's been supplanted by liturgical Hebrew in my community though
I think I know quite a bit about Proto-Indo-European. AMA.
>>532801
I speak caveman
>>533749
>AMA
As much as I hate Ribbit being used as a bogeyman to ad hominem anons you don't like with, Redditors really come here. And if you just unironically said "AMA", then you are probably one of them.
>>533782
>tfw I've tried to learn proto-Afro-Asiatic
I really recommend it anons, feels good to know a confirmed language and religion of people who lived in times before the agriculture happened
Also is there anything known about proto-Niger-Congo, or is the family too much of a clusterfuck to deduce even a few certain facts? If Afro-Asiatic is so old, then surely Niger-Congo must be even more ancient?
>>532801
sanskrit
>>534072
Niger-Congo is agricultural.
Hopefully i'll improve my Latin this year
>>532801
I speak and write in Syriac Aramaic, 2,000 year old language.
>>532801
I took two years of Latin in Highschool. I was grammatically quite good at it. Though, my memory of vocabulary was trash. We translated cool poetry from Ovid and would have I taken a third year, Caesar too.
>>533782
كيف احوالك؟
>>534985
I'm curious: How, if at all, is that different to the sort of Aramaic used in the Gemara?
>>535022
يا انون، شاكو ماكو؟
>>534048
The number of fancy words you used, combined with your garbage grammar, and how much you care if someone here uses Reddit, kind of make me hurt inside.
>>535301
It says "shakoo makoo" which means "what's up?" in Iraqi. Sounds cool
I'm pretty deficient on dialect too lol
>>535301
In MSA, the standard form of "How are you" is
كيف حالك؟
for second person singular,
كيف حالكم؟
for second person plural, and
كيف الحال؟
in general, not specifying any pronouns
>>535021
>would have I taken a third year
Why didn't you?
>>534048
Reddit has always been here. This site is not your secret club.
I speak Latin with ease, but being Italian I don't think it counts tbqh
>>532801
>Do any of you guys know any ancient languages and know how to speak them?
I know quite a bit of Ancient Greek because I study Classics.
But since it's a literary language I don't worry too much about speaking it.(Even though I probably could).
>ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς
>>535032
The Talmud is written in Hebrew, which essentially has the same alphabet as Syriac but Syriac didn't exist until centuries later. I don't know Classical Aramaic but I know its the parent language to Syriac. There are Akkadian loan words im Syriac too.
Zuzu - Akkadian
Zuzeh - Syriac
(It means half a shekel.)
>>535032
ܫܠܡܐ
Shlama (Greetings in Syriac) like Shalom in Hebrew
>>533749
How do you say "I am a cuckold"?
>>535900
No but ama didn't originate on 4chan so it shouldn't belong, I don't care where you came from but be original if anything
>>533747
Even then we don't know the exact sounds for the letters on estimates based off the languages descendants (Tigrinya and Tigre) and other guesses.
There's letters that are redundant since they make the same sound but we don't know why though.
>>535968
>The Talmud is written in Hebrew
"Of the two main components of the Babylonian Talmud, the Mishnah is written in Mishnaic Hebrew. Within the Gemara, the quotations from the Mishnah and the Baraitas and verses of Tanakh quoted and embedded in the Gemara are in Hebrew. The rest of the Gemara, including the discussions of the Amoraim and the overall framework, is in a characteristic dialect of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. There are occasional quotations from older works in other dialects of Aramaic, such as Megillat Taanit. Overall, Hebrew constitutes somewhat less than half of the text of the Talmud.
This difference in language is due to the long time period elapsing between the two compilations. During the period of the Tannaim (rabbis cited in the Mishnah), the spoken vernacular of Jews in Judaea was a late form of Hebrew known as Rabbinic or Mishnaic Hebrew, whereas during the period of the Amoraim (rabbis cited in the Gemara), which began around 200 CE, the spoken vernacular was Aramaic. Hebrew continued to be used for the writing of religious texts, poetry, and so forth."
tl;dr - The majority of the Talmud is actually Aramaic.
