Assyrian Independence?

[abudar2000]

shlomo oh Paul,

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. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->

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