公元前晚期青铜时代的非利士人（Peleset）以及希腊、罗马、拜占庭时期的Palaestina，在公元638年伊斯兰教传入后被阿拉伯人改造，成为“Filastin”（菲勒斯坦）。

Late Bronze Age Peleset and Hellenic/Roman/Byzantine Palaestina were adapted by the Arabs and became Filastin under Islam from 638

公元后。7世纪中叶，巴勒斯坦的人口主要是基督徒，多为讲巴勒斯坦叙利亚语（一种阿拉姆语）的基督教农民，他们在早期伊斯兰时期一直使用耶稣所使用的语言。然而，在巴勒斯坦发现的最早的阿拉伯语铭文可追溯至罗马和拜占庭时期，并且数个世纪以来，阿拉伯人与拜占庭的三个巴勒斯坦行省（Palaestina）紧密相连；事实上，在拜占庭统治下，阿拉伯行省本身成为了救赎巴勒斯坦（Palaestina Salutaris）的一部分，其首府位于佩特拉，即纳巴泰阿拉伯人的旧都。此外，7世纪阿拉伯人接管巴勒斯坦后，许多曾被讲希腊语的拜占庭行政机构使用的巴勒斯坦地名，仍继续被阿拉伯行政机构沿用；因此，拜占庭语Παλαιστινη 产生了三种阿拉伯语形式：Falastin、Filastin和Filistin（Schiller 2009:

AD onwards. In the mid-7th century the population of Palestine was predominantly Christian, mostly Palestinian Syriac Aramaic-speaking Christian peasants who continued to speak the language of Jesus throughout early Islam. However, the earliest Arabic inscriptions found in Palestine go back to the Roman and Byzantine periods, and for several centuries the Arabs were closely linked with the three Byzantine provinces of Palaestina; in fact, under the Byzantines Provincia Arabia itself became part of Palaestina Salutaris, with its capital located in Petra, the old capital of the Nabataean Arabs. Also after the Arabs took over Palestine in the 7th century many place names in Palestine that were used by the Greek-speaking Byzantine administration continued to be used by the Arab administration; hence the emergence of the three Arabic forms of Byzantine Παλαιστινη: Falastin, Filastin and Filistin (Schiller 2009:

85；Sharon 2003）。

85; Sharon 2003).

早在公元前5世纪，希罗多德就记载了阿拉伯人在巴勒斯坦的存在；罗马时代的巴勒斯坦也发现了阿拉伯语铭文。与巴勒斯坦阿拉伯语关系密切的是巴勒斯坦叙利亚语（阿拉姆语），它属于西北闪米特语族，是该地普通民众所使用的语言。巴勒斯坦叙利亚语阿拉姆语在罗马和拜占庭时期的巴勒斯坦，以及伊斯兰早期的巴勒斯坦，都在非官方的民间层面持续繁荣，并与现代巴勒斯坦阿拉伯语口语变得密切相关。

The presence of Arabs in Palestine was noted by Herodotus in the 5th century BC and Arabic inscriptions in Palestine were discovered from the Roman era. Closely related to Palestinian Arabic is Palestinian Syriac Aramaic, which was part of the north-west Semitic group of languages and was the language of ordinary people in the country. Palestinian Syriac Aramaic continued to flourish at a non-official popular level in Roman and Byzantine Palestine and in early Islamic Palestine and became closely related to the modern Palestinian Arabic colloquial language.

在公元4世纪至7世纪初，"三个巴勒斯坦"地区的加萨尼阿拉伯人曾是叙利亚一性论教会的捍卫者与保护者。

In the 4th‒early 7th centuries the Ghassanid Arabs of the ‘Three Palestines’ were champions and protectors of the Syriac Monophysite Church.

他们那些说阿拉伯语的诗人、主教和国王（以及巴勒斯坦第一、第二、第三行省的部落酋长），必定不仅熟悉拜占庭帝国的通用语（希腊语），也熟悉大巴勒斯坦地区的叙利亚阿拉姆语方言。

Their Arabic-speaking poets, bishops and kings (and phylarchs of Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Tertia) must have been familiar not only with the lingua franca of the Byzantine Empire (Greek), but also with the Syriac Aramaic dialect of greater Palestine.

在罗马和拜占庭时期，巴勒斯坦犹太人也使用巴勒斯坦阿拉姆语（Sokoloff 2003）。如今，标准阿拉伯语和许多巴勒斯坦村庄的方言中，仍能找到大量源自巴勒斯坦阿拉姆语的词汇。另外值得注意的是，20世纪初，欧洲的犹太复国主义者在创制现代希伯来语时，为了实现本土化和使语言显得古老的策略，大量借用了巴勒斯坦阿拉姆语和古希腊语的词汇。

Palestinian Aramaic was also spoken by Palestinian Jews during the Roman and Byzantine period (Sokoloff 2003). Today a significant number of Palestinian Aramaic words are found in both standard Arabic and in the vernacular language of many Palestinian villages. Also interestingly, in the early 20th century the European Zionist inventors of modern Hebrew, in pursuit of indigenising and antiquating strategies, borrowed heavily from Palestinian Aramaic and ancient Greek vocabulary.

巴勒斯坦阿拉姆语也在大量现代巴勒斯坦及阿拉伯地名中留存下来，包括：

Palestinian Aramaic has also survived in a large number of modern Palestinian and Arab toponyms including:

• 拉马拉（阿拉姆语“Ram”意为“高处”，“Allah”是阿拉伯语中“真主”的意思），是巴勒斯坦民族权力机构的总部所在城市。

• Ramallah (Aramaic ‘Ram’, meaning height, and ‘Allah’, the Arabic word for God), a city which is the headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority.

• Al-Rama（高地），位于上加利利的一个巴勒斯坦小镇。

• Al-Rama (height), a Palestinian town in upper Galilee.

• Al-Ram，耶路撒冷东北部的一座巴勒斯坦城镇。

• Al-Ram, a Palestinian town north-east of Jerusalem.

Al-Majdal(意为“堡垒”),是靠近太巴列的一个阿拉伯村庄,1948年被以色列驱逐居民后荒废。

• Al-Majdal (meaning fortress), an Arab village near Tiberias depopulated by Israel in 1948.

• 阿尔-马格达勒（亚实基伦），古老的非利士城市。

• Al-Majdal (‘Asqalan), the ancient Philistine city.

马季达勒·沙姆斯，戈兰高地以北的一座德鲁兹阿拉伯人小镇。

• Majdal Shams, a Druze Arab town north of the Golan Heights.

位于纳撒勒西南的一个阿拉伯村庄——阿尔-穆贾伊迪勒，于1948年被以色列驱离，人口被迫迁空。

• Al-Mujaydil, an Arab village south-west of Nazareth depopulated by Israel in 1948.

• 图尔山（Al-Tur，山）：巴勒斯坦境内三处山区地名的名称。

• Al-Tur (mountain), the name of three mountainous place names in Palestine.