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Excellent question, Heidi! I know of no codified Aramaic romanization table. I, too, have applied the Hebrew standards for Aramaic terms as needed. The question is whether or not there is sufficient justification to consider Aramaic its own
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Excellent question, Heidi! I know of no codified Aramaic romanization table. I, too, have applied the Hebrew standards for Aramaic terms as needed. The question
is whether or not there is sufficient justification to consider Aramaic its own discrete language requiring its own standard. I’m not sure there is, but perhaps others think otherwise?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">As to the list of resources you list below, I’d shy away from Sefaria as a romanization reference source simply because, as an open-source resource, I don’t know
how reliable/stable the vocalizations found there might be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks for bringing this up, Jasmin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces+jshino=pobox.upenn.edu@lists.osu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Heidi G Lerner via Heb-naco<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 14, 2022 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> heb-naco@lists.osu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Heb-NACO] ALA/LC romanization(?) for Aramic as used in Babylonian Talmud, Talmud Yerushalmi, midrashitc texts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Dear safranim, Is it possible that in our years of developing romanization schemata for several Jewish languages written in Hebrew script we have not codified any
guidelines for Aramaic used in talmudic and midrashic/aggadic/cabalistic texts? <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear safranim,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Is it possible that in our years of developing romanization schemata for several Jewish languages written in Hebrew script we have not codified any guidelines
for Aramaic used in talmudic and midrashic/aggadic/cabalistic texts? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Up until now my practice has been to follow the ALA/LC table for Hebrew. If I don't find a particular Aramaic word in Even-Shoshan or Alkalay, i turn to
Jastrow, Sefaria, Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (covers all dialects). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">What have the rest of you been doing? Should a preferred method be codified? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I look forward to learning your practices have been.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Best, Heidi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Heidi G. Lerner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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