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So, if I understand the below correctly, your distant ancestory were Jews from the tribes of Reuben and Naphtali who were exiled to Assyria, became Zoroastrians, migrated to Eastern Europe where you recovered a (non-Rabbinical) Jewish faith, then either emmigrated to America or stayed behind and became Catholics? If I wasn't completely confused, that's quite an odessey. Adam --- Jacob <bargarbya@hidden.email> wrote: > Sadly I'm not a native speaker, but my children > (when I have some) > will be native speakers. I learned the language in > my teens during > Shabbat studies with my father. After I read an > article on Eliazer > ben Yehuda and his work on Modern Hebrew, I was > inspired to work on > modernizing and expanding my own religious dialect > of Aramaic. That > is primarily why I joined this group, to see if > anyone else was doing > something similar. > > Isarlaean, like the term Jewish, is ethnic, > religious, and linguistic. > The word itself comes from an old Medo-Persian word > for the Northern > Kingdom of Israel, "Isareyl." My mother's family > comes from the > Haruvatuan province of Old Medya in eastern Iran, > which according to > our family history had a high concentration of > Reuveni and Naftali > exiles. The Haruvatuans were called "Isarlyanin" by > the Aramaic > speaking Persians and "Haruvatyi" by those speaking > Parsi. Somehow > both names stuck. All the Zoroastrian religious > connections we once > had were exchanged for Judeo-Christianity when we > (called Hrvats by > the Slavs) migrated to Eastern Europe. Centuries > later some of us (now > called Isarlaeans) fled to America after constantly > being harrassed by > the Roman Catholic Church; those who stayed behind > (now called Hrvats) > converted to Catholocism. Today in America we're > often mistaken as > Karaite Jews because of our emphasis on the Torah, > astronomy, and the > lunar calendar. The only connection we have with > the Assyrians is a > historical one, that they exiled our ancestors to > Medya (Media). > > Interestingly enough, after I attended a local > Jewish synagogue for > several months, they actually considered me to be > Jewish based on my > Torah observance. It's all very strange really. > > -Jacob- > > > > > --- Yitzik wrote: > > > > Wow! Are you then, so to say, a native speaker? Or > is it learnt > later just > > for religious purposes, as I did with my Hebrew? > What > religion/confession > > uses Aramaic: Nestorian church, I guess? > > > > Kol b'rakhot, > > or, as they say in Ajami (my Arabo-Romance > conlang), "todos los > tabrikos", > > -- Yitzik > > > > > > > Jin xividjilud djal suñu ed falud ul Jozevu pomu instanchid ul andjelu djul Dominu sivi, ed idavi achibid jun al su sposa. Ed nun aved cuñuxud ad sivi ancha nadud jan ad ul sua huiju primodjindu ed cuamad il su numi ul Jezu. Machu 1:24-25