Syriac Conversational Phrases

[SteveCaruso]

Is that the modern Western form of Aramaic? with all the "o"s instead of the "a"s...? I think its called Suroyo or something like that right?

Shlama,
Chuck

All Syriac is Eastern Aramaic. The entire family and all of its subdialects.

Despite the misnomer, Western Classical Syriac's a-class vowels tend to fall on the spectrum of a <-> o rather than a <-> ? as Eastern Classical Syriac does.

(Aramaic "directional" misnomers can be quite confusing. For example, the dialect Tal is a Western subdialect of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which in and of itself is a Central, Northeastern dialect of Eastern Aramaic. :-) )