~Yeshuewu

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:58 PM -0400 6/7/09, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>"Trilled k"?  You must have an interesting vocal tract.
>
>Herb

An Aramaicist I know claims that Mel et al. were
not in fact speaking Aramaic in the movie, but
something closer to Biblical Hebrew.

LH

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>On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Tom Zurinskas<truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>  I watched some of the movie, "The Passion of
>>Christ".  The language spoken in the film is
>>the native language of Jesus.  It's Aramaic.
>>The Aramaic ~Airummaeyic languages are
>>considered to be endangered.
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language
>>  In the movie, the name of Jesus in Aramaic is
>>~Yeshuewu.  That's the name his mom and dad and
>>everyone called him.  Sometimes I heard that
>>name spoken in the movie spoken as  ~Yaashuewu
>>and  ~Yaeshuewu, but I assume ~Yeshuewu is it.
>>  Of interest are the actual words as Jesus spoke them:
>>  (For a truespel pronunciation key see  http://tinypaste.com/764f4
>>  (note: There are two sounds not in English.
>>The trilled r, expressed as ~q and trilled k,
>>expressed as ~x.  According to the language
>>samples in truespel book one, these are the two
>>most frequent non-English sounds.)
>>  I am he   ~Aanu hie
>>  Judas   ~Yoedu
>>  You betray the son of man with a kiss.  ~~Aappat nipaaqid naash kinsshaak.~~
>>  Those who live by the sword shall die by the
>>sword.  ~~Kue di yaa hexlaa kruvvaa bekruvvaa
>>gae buet effeeblae.~~
>>  I say to you before the clock crows, three
>>times you will deny me.  ~~Animair aanalliek
>>  Peetggaan kaan eellaak tqaak tinee uef
>>tikkaakaa thhuenee thhilee thhuethhin~~
>>  My kingdom is not of this world.  ~~Raegnum
>>mae'um naan est doe'oe moondoe.~~ (This looks
>>like Latin - as Jesus was speaking to the Roman
>>governor, Pilot).
>>  My heart is ready father.  My heart is ready.
>>~~Evueveehue kut ibu, evueveehue kut.
>>  (I got as far as the whipping scene and then had to quit.  Too graphic)
>>
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