Horæ Aramaicæ: Comprising Concise Notices of the Aramean Dialects in General, and of the Versions of the Holy Scripture Extant in Them: With a ... to the Hebrews, From the Ancient Peschi - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Horæ Aramaicæ: Comprising Concise Notices of the Aramean Dialects in General, and of the Versions of the Holy Scripture Extant in Them: With a Translation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew, and of the Epistle to the Hebrews, From the Ancient Peschito Syriac

V. The galilean; which was held but in low estimation, as the speech of a people proverbially illiterate and rude. It abounded in barbarous contractions, and was easily detected, not only by its slovenly pronunciation of the gutturals olaph, he, cheth, and ee, but by such a separation of the syllables of some words, and a blending together of others, as to render them, to all but a Galilean, unintelligible.

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