Talk:Arameans
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"Shemite:" a descendent of Shem, one of the sons of Noah. If the 17th century terminology is confusing, the article "Abraham wasn't a Jew" (http://www.keyway.ca/htm2003/20030302.htm) at the "Bible Study" website will help you understand this entry. Wetman 08:58, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Wetman is the official monkey on my back. He is sad enough to check out every new page I create. Maybe I should make a few up just to entertain him? To help any reader interested in this stub further, Shemite is used these days as an alternative to the tricky word Semitic. The latter word has linguistic connotations while Shemite is still terminology purely used in reference to biblical genealogy i.e. the country called Elam was certainly Shemite in the biblical sense but by no means semitic in the linguistic sense. The word Shemite is used here in this article to infer to the more discening reader that although the bible mentions a nation known as Aram as one of Shem's 5 immediate offspring, the linguistic nature of that alledged nation (nor indeed their eastern location) cannot be determined with any certainty despite attempts to connect them with central asia.
It's Aramaean or Aramæan, not Aramean. — Chameleon My page/My talk 07:46, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This article is in a very poor condition. It does not distinguish properly between different uses of the name 'Aramaean' through history. Nor does it give a decent history of ancient Aram. I think this is a fair candidate for complete rewrite. Does anyone disagree?
- Gareth Hughes 00:37, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Dialect of Akkadian
According to the Semitic languages article, Aramaic is a West Semitic language like Hebrew and Arabic. Akkadian is an East Semitic language. So Aramaic is probably not a dialect of Akkadian.
- You are right, and so I have removed the offending sentence. This article is poorly written and is need of a lot of cleaning up. Please feel free to help out with it. --Gareth Hughes 22:18, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)