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Re: This Is Why Assyrians Are Not White/European
Posted by Rashad (Guest) - Thursday, February 9 2012, 7:55:07 (UTC)
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When I listen to these recordings, I think about those silly nationalists who argue they speak Assyrian, Jesus spoke their language, and the ancients never changed languages. I have heard it many times during my debates with these heroes and there was one on here a couple of years ago who claimed they only changed their script and adopted a different writing and not language. They try to say that Aramaic and Assyrian are the same languages, which they are not. I was reading a book on ancient Assyria and the author states that by the 8th century BCE, most people of Assyria were bilingual, being able to speak Assyrian(Akkadian) and Aramaic. Now how does one become bilingual by speaking one language? If Assyrian and Aramaic were the same, they wouldn't be considered bilingual. The languages were different and the only thing they have in common is that they are Semetic languages and that means it is from the same family with Arabic, Hebrew, Ethiopian languages and whatever other languages once existed that were Semetic.

Akkadian was actually closer to classical Arabic than it is to the language these jack asses speak. They also get a hard on by telling everyone that Jesus spoke the language of the Assyrians, and that is false as well. If he did speak Aramaic, it would have been the western dialects, which were spoken in Syria, etc. Jews also spoke Greek, so what? Persians and Egyptians also could speak Aramaic as that became the common language of the area. Furthermore, newer findings and research done by historians is now debunking the Jesus spoke Aramaic opinion. It was more likely that he spoke Hebrew and that language was still spoken by the Nazarenes as their own writings indicate. The community to which Jesus would have belonged to spoke Hebrew and they lived mostly outside of Jerusalem on some mountain because they wanted to be away from the Romans and all of the idolatry. They felt they could practice their religion better and they did not allow outsiders in, and that included Jews because they were afraid they could be spies.

Christians like us to believe that the Jesus movement was just peaceful and condemned violence but that's not what history tells us. These people were armed and regular opponents of the Roman soldiers. They use to sneak up to high ranking people whom they viewed as traitors and would just stab them to death. Those people were die hard Israelites who spoke Hebrew and their writings were found in the last 100 years and they are not in aramaic. However, it wouldn't matter anyway even if he spoke Aramaic because this is just a language that happened to be used by many people. Iraqi Arabic also has words which are of unknown origin and some linguists say the ambiguous words are of Akkadian/Summerian origin, and that's highly likely. Iraq, which the Arabs began calling Mesopotamia during the rise of Islam, is also of Mesopotamian origin(Uruk). I guess our nationalists will finally accepts Muslims from Iraq as real Assyrians, right? Since they say Syria and Assyria are synonymous, that means all of the 25 million Syrians(most of them Muslim) are also Assyrians. They include them in their silly "assyrian/chaldean,syriac" nation and now they can make noise as they will be in the millions without having to count every goat, toy, chicken and Fred Aprim.



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