If you’ve seen my video of the pronunciation I posted on TikTok, YouTube or Instagram then this will give you further insight on what was being said.

Aramaic & Hebrew derive from Akkadian, Ugaritic, Sumerian. From ancient Aramaic, a plethora of languages emerged that are spoken today around the world. I do not speak the language with modern vowel markings that were added in the language at a later period in history. I speak how it was first written. Please note that two consonants together do have a natural occuring vowel e.g β€œkt” together has a natural β€œih” sound in the middle as in β€œin” without the β€œn”—even when whispering. One could conclude that words written in Aramaic & Hebrew, with all consonants, are left open for interpretation if one was to eliminate all the vowel markings. While that is true, I decided to stick with the β€œih” because it the most relaxed-natural occuring vowel between two consonants without opening the throat or stressing the muscles in it, utilizing the least amount of air pressure. Hebrew & Aramaic contains the written vowels β€œa,e,y,u” with β€œy” being pronounced as β€œee”. This is the same as Akkadian, Sumerian and Ugaritic.

The Breakdown

Aramaic & Hebrew is read right to left!

Question:

Hello, how are you? (Talking to male)

π€”π€‹π€Œ π€€π€‰π€Š 𐀀𐀕𐀀 𐀄𐀅𐀉

(Update) π€”π€‹π€Œ π€€π€Šπ€‰ 𐀀𐀕𐀀 𐀄𐀅𐀉

⁃ Fix: π€€π€Šπ€‰ ➑️ π€€π€‰π€Š

⁃ See notes for more info

β€œSh-lih-m” π€”π€‹π€Œ (Peace, well being)

β€’ Sumerian: Silim β€œsil-ih-m” (Elementary Sumerian Glossary, Pg. 58)

⁃ Sumerian uses a sibilant β€œs”, but Aramaic & Hebrew uses a β€œsh” and I believe it derives from a close Sumerian word: Silim-esh-du (Also on Pg. 58) which is used to greet and salute instead of using a state of being such as Silim or Shlim to do so. This is why I believe ancient Aramaic & Hebrew speakers extracted the β€œsh” from β€œesh”, dropped the β€œdu” and replaced it with β€œs” to combine the Sumerian greet & salute with the quality state of being at peace, well being, to be whole. Again, those are just my observations and it is not attested amongst other ancient Aramaic & Hebrew scholars and researchers.

β€’ β€œaye-eek” π€€π€‰π€Š (How)

⁃ Official Aramaic (Period) interrogative

⁃ (Update) Doing further research I found that π€€π€‰π€Š is just a backwards rendering of the Akkadian word π€€π€Šπ€‰ β€œAh-kee” (How)

β€’ β€œat-tah” 𐀀𐀕𐀀 (You, 2nd person masculine)

⁃ This is an Akkadian pronoun that I wanted to preserve because it is very similar to 𐀀𐀍𐀀 β€œanah” in Aramaic (Targum Aramaic, Syriac Aramaic); 𐀀𐀍𐀄 β€œaneh” (Book of the prophets Aramaic or Biblical Aramaic); and 𐀀𐀍𐀉 β€œah-nee” in Hebrew which all corresponds to β€œanak” in 1st person Akkadian. Since they’re similar then it makes it easy to remember e.g. ana (I, me), ata (You).

⁃ Aramaic & Hebrew preserves Akkadian’s β€œatta” as a short form, which is 𐀀𐀕 β€œah-t” and also as a long form 𐀀𐀕𐀄 β€œah-tteh”. Hebrew also uses it for a an accusative article while Aramaic utilizes 𐀉𐀕 β€œee-t”. Ugaritic uses the partial form as well. Biblical Aramaic uses 𐀀𐀍𐀕 and 𐀀𐀍𐀕𐀄 mostly.

⁃ Note that Hebrew & Aramaic added in vowel markings later on in the copies of scriptures, scrolls and various other writings. This added influence on the words and made it easy to manipulate the sound where they saw fit.

⁃ Note that 𐀄 or Χ” corresponds to the Roman letter β€œH”, which is used two ways. 1) In the beginning and middle of a word. It is the sound you get when you say β€œHorse” or β€œHaha” because it is attached to a consonant. 2) At the end of the word it is used as β€œeh” e.g. the Spanish word β€œCarne” because there is no vowel that comes after itβ€”unless you manipulate it with vowel markings.

β€’ β€œHu-ee” 𐀄𐀅𐀉 (be, is, are; verb-masculine)

⁃ I added this later in the segment because in Akkadian and Sumerian the verb is usually the last thing said in a phrase, thought, sentence etc. but, not all the time though. Some english examples are: β€œI want you to go”, β€œHe was up all night crying”, β€œTo the store he ran (He ran to the store).

Hello, how are you? (Talking to female)

π€”π€‹π€Œ π€€π€‰π€Š 𐀀𐀕𐀉 𐀄𐀅𐀉𐀀

β€’ 𐀀𐀕𐀉 β€œat-tee” of course is the feminine version of 𐀀𐀕𐀀 β€œat-tah” as I explained above

β€’ 𐀄𐀅𐀉𐀀 β€œHu-yah” is the feminine version of 𐀄𐀅𐀉 as I explained above

(Update) π€”π€‹π€Œ π€€π€Šπ€‰ 𐀀𐀕𐀉 𐀄𐀅𐀉𐀀

⁃ Fix: π€€π€Šπ€‰ ➑️ π€€π€‰π€Š

⁃ See notes for more info

Response:

Hello, I am good, bless you! (male response)

π€”π€‹π€Œ 𐀀𐀍𐀀 𐀈𐀁 𐀄𐀅𐀉 𐀀𐀕𐀀 π€Šπ€“π€

β€’ β€œah-nah” 𐀀𐀍𐀀

⁃ 1st person pronoun (See notes for 𐀀𐀕𐀀 above)

β€’ β€œTih-b” 𐀈𐀁

⁃ Definition: Good

⁃ Pronounced with a hard sibilant β€œt” 𐀈 as in β€œTom” or β€œTake” unlike 𐀕 which is a soft β€œt” sound using the tip of the tongue to the front area of the roof of your mouth behind the teeth. Sometimes you will see the transliteration as β€œth” which may strike the notion that it is pronounced with the tongue between the teeth as the β€œth” in β€œteeth” or β€œthoughts, thorough”. Here’s a video explaining the soft β€œt” from another individual

⁃ Sumerian, Akkadian and Ugaritic only contains the hard sibilant β€œt” sound in their alphabet and not the soft β€œt” (th)

β€’ β€œKr-ih-b” π€Šπ€“π€

⁃ Definition: β€œto bless, praise, thank”

⁃ I believe this to be the frontward spelling (the correct way) source of the backward spelling (the wrong way) of Aramaic’s π€π€“π€Š & Hebrew’s Χ‘Χ¨Χš β€œBir-k” or β€œBrih-k” if you are using a rolling β€œr” sound to pronounce it. If you click π€Šπ€“π€ and follow the link, you should see the transliteration of the Ugaritic spelling in Roman characters in the (Comparison with other Semitic languages) which is β€œKrb”

Hello, I am good, bless you! (Female response)

π€”π€‹π€Œ 𐀀𐀍𐀀 𐀈𐀁 𐀄𐀅𐀉𐀀 𐀀𐀕𐀉 π€Šπ€“π€

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