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The current Christians in Palestine are a mixture between Arab Christians who were forced to leave Muslim nations (Especially the Greek Orthodox, who leave Jordan and Syria for Palestine), and numerous other Christians. It's not an ethnicity, just a peoples in Palestine.
shlomo bjford,

bjford Wrote:The current Christians in Palestine are a mixture between Arab Christians who were forced to leave Muslim nations (Especially the Greek Orthodox, who leave Jordan and Syria for Palestine), and numerous other Christians. It's not an ethnicity, just a peoples in Palestine.

The people who come Syria, aren't Arab Christians. The only Arab Christians out there are those located in the Arabian Peninsula, ie like Saudi Arabia, Yemen, etc... and most of them got wiped out at the begining of the Islam. The Palestinian Christians aren't Arabs.

poosh bashlomo,
keefa-moroon
I think most people do not make the necessary distinction between Arab and Arabic-speaking. Most people in the west simply call everyone in the middle east an "Arab."

The "Arabs" were originally the 13 tribes descended from Ishmael. Their descendants today are the various tribes of Saudi Arabia.

Just because we speak English doesn't necessarily mean we are ethnically English, and just because Palestinians speak Arabic doesn't necessarily mean they are Arab ethnically.

Arabs are from Arabia. The Lebanese are Arabic-speaking Phoenicians, just like the Palestinians are Arabic-speaking Canaanites.
shlomo,

Paul Younan Wrote:Arabs are from Arabia. The Lebanese are Arabic-speaking Phoenicians, just like the Palestinians are Arabic-speaking Canaanites.

And since the word Phoenician is a Greek translation of the word Canaanite, ........... ;)

Actually what we currently speak in Lebanon is Arabised Syriac.

poosh bashlomo,
keefa-moroon
My parents and two sisters learned to speak it while growing up in Beirut. It was very easy for them, since they spoke Assyrian (neo-Aramaic) at home.

Iraqi Arabic is also very influenced by Aramaic, from what I'm told...I can't speak or understand any dialect of Arabic, so I wouldn't know - although I was very happy while watching the LBN satellite channel and found a Maronite service chanting the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic. <!-- s:bigups: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/bigups.gif" alt=":bigups:" title="Big Ups" /><!-- s:bigups: -->
shlomo oh Paul,

Paul Younan Wrote:My parents and two sisters learned to speak it while growing up in Beirut. It was very easy for them, since they spoke Assyrian (neo-Aramaic) at home.

Iraqi Arabic is also very influenced by Aramaic, from what I'm told...I can't speak or understand any dialect of Arabic, so I wouldn't know - although I was very happy while watching the LBN satellite channel and found a Maronite service chanting the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic. <!-- s:bigups: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/bigups.gif" alt=":bigups:" title="Big Ups" /><!-- s:bigups: -->

Most of the Arabic dialects in previously Aramaic speaking nations have Aramaic vocabulary all over the place. <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile -->

I'm working on a project to have the entire current Maronite Qurbono recorded in Syriac-Aramaic only. <!-- s:onfire: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/onfire.gif" alt=":onfire:" title="On Fire" /><!-- s:onfire: -->

What is cool about modern Lebanese, is that we construct alot of our sentences in a Syriac style, rather than the Arabic way.
Also the terminations in many cases are exactly like the Syriac.

Here's an example (In Lebanese| in the masculine):
bade or badee or bodee -> I want (Singular Suffix)
badak or bodok -> Do you want (Singular Suffix)
badoh or bodoh -> Does he want (Singular Suffix)
badna or bodna -> We want (Plural Suffix)
badkoon or bodkoon -> Do you want (Plural Suffix)
badun or bodun -> Do They want (Plural Suffix)

baba or bobo -> Father
mama or momo -> Mother

ana -> I
enta -> you
huwa -> He
heeya -> She
nehna -> Us
entoo -> you
hene -> Them

etc....

poosh bashlomo,
keefa-moroon
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