What is This?

About 10 years ago I set out to create a much needed grammar on the Galilean Aramaic language. 8 years ago I finished a draft -- and then, a bit discouraged, I put it aside and did nothing with it.

This year (2025) I have decided to finally publish it on this website for anyone to read, which required converting all of the lovely LaTeX files I had written -- a necessity before more recent font rendering solutions -- into something more archival in nature.

The current site is developed and deployed in 11ty, a static site generator that takes Markdown files (which are very future-proof and easy to read) and builds them into a flat-file HTML and CSS website.

As of the initial posting, this document is not edited. There are typos. There are mistakes. There be dragons left to be slain. Check the news below for progress. I may at some point build an RSS feed for it.

However, the code for the entire thing is now available up on GitHub and I will accept pull requests for updates and ammendations.

I hope that you, dear reader, are able to make good use of this.

–Steve Caruso
April 2025

Support the Project #

If you would like to help support the project, you can support my KoFi page. The more folk who subscribe there, the more time I will be able to dedicate to this project, and others like it.

This document is © 2017-2025, but you may freely cite it with the following information, with the date of access (as I plan to make updates into the future):

APA: Caruso, S. (2025, April). Elementary Galilean Aramaic: לישנה גלילייה מן ריש. Retrieved (Month) (Day), (YEA), from http://galileanaramaic.com

MLA: Caruso, Steve. Elementary Galilean Aramaic: לישנה גלילייה מן ריש. Apr. 2025, galileanaramaic.com. Accessed (Day) (Short Month)., (YEAR).

Chicago: Caruso, Steve. 2025. “Elementary Galilean Aramaic: לישנה גלילייה מן ריש.” April 2025. Accessed (Month) (Day), (YEAR). http://galileanaramaic.com.

News #

April 24th 2025 -- The first pass of up to Chapter 6 is complete.

April 23rd 2025 -- The domain name galileanaramaic.com has been registered.

April 23rd 2025 -- The initial commits to the repository have been made. Translation from LaTeX syntax to Markdown is still underway.