Galilean dialect

Galilean dialect
Galilean dialect
Region	Galilee
Ethnicity	Galileans
Era	Second Temple period
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramoid? Aramaic Western Palestinian Aramaic Christian Palestinian Aramaic Galilean dialect; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Aramaic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	jpa-u-sd-ilz
	The Galilee region

The Galilean dialect was the form of Christian Palestinian Aramaic spoken by people in Galilee during the Classical period, for example at the time of Jesus and the disciples, as distinct from the Judean dialect spoken in Jerusalem.

The Aramaic of Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, gives various examples of Aramaic phrases. The New Testament notes that the pronunciation of Peter gave him away as a Galilean to the servant girl at the brazier the night of Jesus' trial (see Matthew 26:73 and Mark 14:70).