Why We Spoke In Many Languages At Time of Ivrim Slavery in Egypt Part I on Slavery: DEVELOPMENT OF SEMITES AND SLAVERY

 Nadene Goldfoot                                            

What enables us to speak and gives us the power of languages? 

 

The human larynx is much lower, relative to cervical vertebrae, than that of our ancestors and other primates. The descent of the larynx, the theory held, was what elongated our vocal tract and enabled modern humans to begin making the contrasting vowel sounds that were the early building blocks of language.

When mankind went from hunters to gatherers and became farmers, they were living in tribes, which are family groups all related.  Tribes eventually grew larger into clans and clans into villages and towns, of course.  We intermarry with people close by, sharing our genes with each other.

There are a few reasons why monkeys do not talk like humans. One reason is that monkeys have a different type of larynx, or voice box, than humans. The larynx in monkeys is located higher in the throat, which makes it difficult for them to produce the same range of sounds that humans can. Additionally, the neural pathways and language centers in the brain of monkeys are not as developed as they are in humans. Humans have evolved over time to have a unique ability to learn and use complex languages, while monkeys have not.  We have developed a specialized intelligence.  

This helps to develop a language, since we are sharing the same genes, and that creates the size and development of the human larynx.  That's why people of England have a different twang from people in the USA, both speaking English.  It sounds different. Most likely the larynx has changed. 

    Not knowing the language, Moses meets the daughters of Jethro in Midian, the local priest and their flock of sheep and falls in love with Zipporah, who later gave him 2 sons, Gershom and Eliezer.  They managed to communicate.   

        Moses, born and raised in Egypt, had fled to Midian after killing an overseer of slaves because of his cruelty.  Midian, unknown to him, had some lovely women.  Midianites were a Bedouin tribe related to Abraham (Gen.25:2) who traveled in Caravans with incense from Gilead to Egypt and later to other countries; and closely connected to the Israelites.  As usual, in later history the Midianites become enemies of Israel by fighting against them with the Moabites (Num.21:29).  From 2nd Temple times, the Land of Midian was thought to be located in NW Arabia.  Knowledge gets confused.                              

What's good to know is that every man is born with a  tag as to what tribe he came from called his Y haplogroup.  J1 is very common for Jews that are the descendants of Aaron, brother of Moses, and there were a lot of them.  Muslims are also found to with J1 as their haplogroup, with the usual slightly different tag ending on their title, showing that they are a little different from Aaron's descendants, but from the same original source.  I love, just love it when science is so specific in its findings and connects with our oral and written history found in the Torah.  It just strengthens the Torah 100%.                                   

Knowing this, and now knowing that a Semite is a person who speaks Hebrew, Arabic or a related other languages, shows how they differentiate from others in a land they may have entered.  It's like having a certain different color of skin; something to identify by.  That's why some people of Spanish blood can roll their rrrrrs, and semites have sounds in the bottom of their throats, a Khhh sound and why it's hard for me to reproduce in my throat.  You larynx has to make changes.  

The same thing happened when senior-aged Jacob and his family of 70,  who were referred to as the Hebrews, or Ivrim,  went into Egypt, needing to find relief from the drought they were suffering from in Canaan, hoping they had received the blessed rain.  Unknown to them, Jacob's beloved son, Joseph had made it there when his brothers sold him to a passing caravan, and he had risen to the top, becoming the #2 man under the pharaoh.  The pyramids were already built by this time.                                                     

With Joseph's help, Jacob, his father,  led the group of 70 from Canaan to Goshen, the northern area of Egypt to live in with their sheep at about that time.  Abram was born during the 2nd millennium in about 1948 BCE, and genealogy takes us then to Jacob.      

Did the Ivrim speak the same language as the Egyptians?  Arabic is a Semitic language.  Another source said, "The Semitic Hebrew of Ancient Israel and the Semitic Afro-Asiatic but not Semitic Late Egyptian language were distantly related, but not enough for direct communication.

Ancient Egyptians spoke Egyptian. Obviously, the Ivrim had to learn and to speak Egyptian as well.  Egypt's official language is Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in most written documents and schools.

In the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Middle East, people of different languages sometimes used Akkadian as a Lingua Franca.

Akkad, in the Babylonian period, was the northern region of the valley between the Euphrates and the Tigris, which contained Babylon, Sipopar, and other important cities.  The Ancient city of Babylonia mentioned in Gen 10:10 was the residence of Sargon the Great.  The earliest Semitic language that has been suggested as a common source is Akkadian, an extinct dialect that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and Egypt [i].

In conclusion, Hebrew is the more ancient language but Arabic has preserved much more of its linguistic roots, however, both of them share a common origin.  They are both Semitic languages.  

    Coming from Canaan;  Moving into Goshen of Egypt with blessing of pharaoh because of Joseph's position.  They were Semites, speakers of Hebrew language- It is thought of in other resources like the Egyptians themselves that they were the Hyksos people who ruled Egypt from 1720 BCE to 1580 BCE and during this period, the Children of Israel entered the country and were favorably treated;  the period of bondage is believed to have begun after the expulsion of the Hyksos.  Hyksos is an Egyptian word meaning "rulers of the foreign lands";  Each people wrote their own history; and this seems to mesh with each other. Jewish and non-Jews history is always off in terms of dates.  We have Moses  from 1391 BCE to 1271 BCE, a much later date.  Jewish dates go with the history Moses wrote about.   

They loved Goshen, and stayed longer than they had planned, thriving and growing and having many children to the point where the next pharaoh was worried that they would soon dominate the land.  The worry was so great that they all were made slaves of Egypt.

           Slaves at Necropolis :  Necropolis, in archaeology, is an extensive and elaborate burial place of an ancient city. The locations of necropolises in ancient Egypt were varied; many were situated across the Nile River opposite the towns, as was western Thebes. The necropolis was typically outside the city proper in the Mediterranean world and often consisted of several cemeteries used over several centuries.  Cemetery diggers and workers, maybe even on preparing burial sites for new royal family members.  

Slavery was the way of life in those days used for manual laborers.  There were no appliances or artificial power sources except people and animals.  People could do things that animals couldn't so they were useful if under control.  People had been working so hard to improve their lot in life, and it had been a slow process, especially in building towns for human protection from wild animals  and in agriculture to feed them all.  

Notice how the 2 storage cities are located in Goshen, home of Ivrim.  

Slaves had no days off, nor any time off.  They were slaves 24 hours each day. The Israelites had entered Goshen and from then till Moses came along at age 80 to free them had been 500 years.  Perhaps out of that time they were free men for 100 years or so;  I hope so.  They were used to build the storage cities of , Pithom and Ramses.” These storage cities are not simply coterminous with Pithom and Rameses, since these two cities had a variety of buildings that included stone temples for who?  

 Joseph, who became a viceroy appointed by the pharaoh,  had saved the day by telling his pharaoh how to feed the people during a draught and how much to store and that it had to serve 7 years.  What's exciting is how this man, taken to prison and doomed to slavery, was listened to by Potiphar, the chief of Pharaoh's household when Joseph heard him ask an explanation about the dream he had.  The explanation reached the Pharaoh.  To top off the story, Potiphar's sexy wife wanted to have relations with Joseph who refused, and she then falsely accused him of rape to get even.  Who said the Bible is boring?  It told of people acting like those of today.                                         

     Fighting the Amaleks, constant enemies of the Jewish people as they had attacked the Exodus people from Egypt.  

Did slavery benefit the Ivrim?  No, not at all.  It kept them at a standstill in developing their minds for at least 400 years!  for 400 years their minds were in the survival mode only.  Oh, they no doubt thought of all the things wrong with slavery and how they wouldn't treat people like animals.  It helped to develop Moses's form of the 613 Laws who came along much later.  They were still under the care of another, Moses, as it was, who led them to freedom.  Until then, they found they had to follow his directions or die in the wilderness.  Moses knew how to survive, not them.  He had made it to Egypt at the age of 80, and now was leading them back to their ancestral homeland of Canaan, land of stories they had been told. It will take him 40 years to harden these people into a force that could stand on their own;  40 years of changing and adding what they had lost during the 400 years of slavery.      

Resource:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/human-ancestors-may-have-evolved-physical-ability-speak-more-25-million-years-ago-180973759/#:~:text=The%20human%20larynx%20is%20much,early%20building%20blocks%20of%20language.

Book:  The new Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://landioustravel.com/egypt/necropolises-ancient-egypt/

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2020/04/what-were-the-israelites-building-in-egypt/#:~:text=And%20they%20built%20for%20Pharaoh,buildings%20that%20included%20stone%20temples.

https://www.getquranic.com/which-is-older-arabic-or-hebrew/#:~:text=In%20conclusion%2C%20Hebrew%20is%20the,them%20share%20a%20common%20ancestor.

Differentiating the Chaldeans From Others of Babylon-Part 3

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

       Chaldeans, Semites (speakers of Hebrew/Arabic)  on the move migrating westward towards Ur, an ancient Babylonian city, probably of the 3rd millennium since Abram, born much later in about 1948 BCE of the 2nd millennium, was on the scene. 

The First Dynasty of Ur was a 26th-25th century BCE dynasty of rulers of the city of Ur in ancient Sumer. It is part of the Early Dynastic period III of the history of Mesopotamia. It was preceded by the earlier First Dynasty of Kish and the First Dynasty of Uruk.  History can go WAY BACK.  

 Abram will even later migrate with his family to Haran, a trading town of NW Mesopotamia and center of a moon cult. Instead of continuing to Canaan, they stopped and settled in Haran where Terah died at the age of 205. Abraham’s departure from Haran is recorded on the Biblical Timeline Chart around 2004 BC. which was his age of 75.  People of Ur were not Semites.  They would not understand each other, so the Chaldeans will become a  bi-lingual people.    

Assyrian inscriptions from this time mention a Habiru (Hebrew) settlement in the vicinity which some scholars link with Abraham's father, Terah's home there.  They the 12th century CE, a small Jewish community still was in existence-found by Benjamin of Tudela, historian.                                    

      Abram on the move to Haran or away towards Canaan  

Sir Woolsey mentions that "the Chaldaeans and Aramaeans emerged as major political forces.  The city of Ur retained some vestiges of independence within the territory of the Chaldaean tribe of Bir-Jakin. Actually, I found that there had been 5 tribes of Chaldaeans.   This was the period when it might most appropriately have been known as "Ur of the Chaldees."  The question now is, which tribe did Abram and Terah belong?  We can see that Abram was an individualistic thinker among his own Chaldean people, his own tribe, even;  unique, like an Einstein.  

We should be very familiar with the title of Abraham's city of birth being Ur of the Chaldees, and the question came up as to why not just Ur and what was the Chaldees suffix?  We've learned that there was a small nation of Chaldea lying more in the land of Persia further eastward that had migrated into the lands of the Euphrates River to the city of Ur and through the centuries, those immigrants and their descendants had become the mightier force of the city.  They were Semitic people, and that means they were Hebrew or Arabic speakers of some blend or other, while the native population were not. 

It could even be that Ur had its Chaldean neighborhoods, just like minorities have their neighborhoods today in large cities.  Since they had become a more powerful influence on the city, it could even be that the Royalty were Chaldeans.  The history handed down to Moses who wrote all this in Genesis was that Abraham (name now changed to signify his changes) was from Ur of the Chaldees...the Chaldees area of Ur and its people, not the general original native population.                                 

    The yellow area is the Land of Shinar (Chaldees) Abram's 5 tribes had come from the Persian area (Iran) originally.  Babylon was the Cradle of Humanity according to the Bible.  It was also the scene of Man's 1st revolt against G0d with the story, the Tower of Babel.  Many early biblical stories find parallels in Babylonian literature like the Flood.                               

   Peter Brueghel the Elder's painting of  Tower of Babel    

    Ruins of Ur showing Ziggaret of building...steps upwards
                                             

Come, let us make a city and a tower": Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Tower of Babel and the Creation of a Harmonious Community in Antwerp - Journal of....

The people of Babylon, known to us  in the Bible as the Land of Shinar or of the Kasdim (Chaldees) after they became powerful to become the leading people.  

Nanna, Possible depiction of the god Nanna, seated on a temple-like throne, on a fragment of the Stele of Ur-Namma at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (object number B16676.14) (ca. 2100 BCE). The stele was excavated at Ur. © Penn Museum.  The moon god's wife is the goddess Ningal (Akk. Nikkal) and their children are Inana and Utu (Edzard 1965:

From the earliest periods, Nanna/Su'en was the patron deity of the city of Ur. The name of his main sanctuary in Ur was é-kiš-nu-gál, the name also used for the moon god's sanctuaries in Babylon and Nippur (George 1993: 114). From the Akkadian period until the middle of the Old Babylonian period, the daughter of the reigning king was appointed to be the high-priestess of the moon god at Ur (Krebernik 1993-98b: 367-9). ... Other Mesopotamian cult places for the moon god include Ga'eš, a place in the neighbourhood of Ur,... Beyond the alluvial plains of Mesopotamia, a cult centre of Nanna/Su'en is attested at Harran, south-east of modern Urfa, from the Old Babylonian period onwards, where the temple name was é-húl-húl "House of Rejoicing" (Krebernik 1993-98b: 368). At Harran a long inscription was found on a stele, which commemorates Adda-guppi, the mother of Nabonidus, and which celebrates her reverence of the moon god. Another stele inscription from Harran describes Nabonidus' accession to the throne,...

Abraham's message to the world, coming to him from G-d, was that there was but ONE G-d, not a multitude of gods, ONE power that created the world.  He had lived with the people in Haran who had worshipped the moon god, Nanna and his wife, etc, yet came to this conclusion anyway.  

After Abraham's day lived Hammurabi, the king in Babylon (1728-1686 BCE) who was the great lawgiver.  His famous legal code was recently discovered concerning social life and its penalties that were so severe, all rooted in Mesopotamian culture. 

Moses, according to Jewish time, was born later in Egypt (1391-1271 BCE who gave us his original Ten Commandments and then more, adding up to 613.  He was a Prince of Egypt and was educated there, capable of reading and writing.     

Much later in Babylon, their king Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BCE) inherited the Assyrian empire when he conquered  our last of the 10 tribes, Judah in 597 and again in 586 BCE when he exiled these to Babylon.  Cyrus, the next king of power had permitted the Judeans (Jew) to return to Jerusalem in 539 BCE, but not all took him up on this offer.  It was a hard trek; they were born in Babylon and had only heard about Jerusalem from grandparents.  So the population became intermingled with Jews, especially in the towns of Nehardea, Nisibis, Mahoza with all Jewish populations.  

During the Roman occupation in Judaea of about (98-117 CE )the Babylonian Jews rose against emperor Trajan in a revolt due to his oriental policy that led to a major clash.  The Roman commander, Lucius Quietus (116 CE) suppressed it. Trajan had ordered  a massacre of the Jews in Mesopotamia.  Judea itself was kept under firm control by Lucius.   The suppression of the various risings ended the prosperity of the Jewish settlements in Egypt, Cyrenaica and Cyprus.  

Jews of Babylon enjoyed an extensive measure of internal autonomy under both Persian and Parthian rule that followed.  They had an exilarch of Davidic descent who was the king's representative, while the community was governed by a council of elders.  At this time the produced the Babylonian Talmud.  They were learned in Jewish studies and had produced works of literary merit like Ezekiel, Daniel, and Tobit.                               

Rabbi Akiva, (ben Joseph) 50  to 135, humble, uneducated until age 40 with wife Rachel, devoted himself to learning.  Became regarded as greatest scholar of his time, with thousands of students studying under him.  Roman government forbade the study of The Law of Moses which he ignored.  He was arrested, finally executed at Caesarea.  No rabbi of the talmudic period made a more profound impression on Jewish history and on the imagination of the Jewish people than he.  

Babylon had earned a good name by the beginning of the new 3rd century and became the main center of rabbinic studies, academics being founded by Samuel at Nehardea and by Rav at Sura, while in the later 3rd century, the academy of Pumbedita was founded to replace that at Nehardea that was destroyed in 261. By 425 Babylon had become the spiritual center for all Jewry.  

Then persecutions happened in the 5th century which led to the Jewish revolt under Mar Zutra II who held out for 7 years but was finally captured and killed in 520.  He had been a Babylonian exilarch and at the age of 15 had succeeded his father, Huna, who had been killed in the religious persecutions instigated by Firuz of Persia.  Revolting in 513 against king Kohad, Zutra established an independent Jewish state in the district of Mahoza, which lasted for 7 years.  After his defeat, he and his grandfather, R Hananiah, were crucified.  His son, Mar Zutra III, born on the day of his death, was taken to Palestine, where an unsuccessful attempt was made to revive the Patriarchate for him.  

Do you notice that everywhere, people fight for their independence?  They don't like to be told what to do by others, what they can or cannot be allowed to do.  

  The Talmud was finished at about this period.  the position of the Jews continued to be difficult until the Arab conquest of the 7th century.    Just think of that.  Arab made life much better for Jews !  What a history we have had!  

These outstanding Jews could have all been descendants of Abraham, Moses, and King David, and Hillel.  All would have been from a little Semitic tribe of Chaldea East of Ur.    

 Resource:

Book:  UR "of the Chaldees" by Moorey-about Woolley and Ur

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://amazingbibletimeline.com/blog/abraham-75-years-old-departed-with-lot-from-haran/

Tanakh (Bible)  Genesis 11:31-32;  Genesis 12

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/nannasuen/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-Zutra_II

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15307-zutra-mar-ii

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/a-jewish-kingdom-in-ancient-babylon-452113

Rabbi Phillip Kleinman of Neveh Zedek Synagogue During WWII in Portland, Oregon

 Nadene Goldfoot                                    

             Wartime in Poland, about to be invaded by Nazis in 1939, with things heating up terribly for Jews in Germany by 1934 when I was born, luckily, in Portland, Oregon.  

A Rabbi's picture in place of Rabbi Kleinman who was born April 15, 1890 in Galicia, Austria; married Yetta Kirschenbaum of Opole Miasto, Opolskie, Poland, and died June 9, 1983 in Portland, Oregon. They had 3 sons which as a 5 year old in 1939, I neither knew nor cared about.  He always came in our classroom for the song lessons.  However, he didn't leave any pictures of himself that I can find.        

In 1923 Beth El Ner Tamid Synagogue, then known as Congregation Beth El, became the first Conservative Jewish congregation to hold services in Milwaukee. As the only congregation on Milwaukee’s West Side, the first synagogue was built at North 49^th Street and Garfield Avenue. (The building still stands today.)

Rabbi Kleinman came to Portland in 1937 after being rabbi for 11 years at Temple Beth El in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  "He helped to revitalize the congregation with innovations oriented toward youth, such as junior services for young people, special programs for recently married couples and a Jewish boy Scout troop.  Neveh Zedek also continued to grow, and the rabbi remained as spiritual leader for 20 years.  

                     Neveh Zedek Synagogue on 6th Street , called Sixth Street Synagogue or Shul by some.  Abraham Rosencrantz was the chazzan and had a most beautiful voice.  In the summer people would open their windows to hear him practice davening.  It was a pleasure.                                   

I started Kindergarten at Neveh Zedek Synagogue when I was 5 years old in 1939.  Rabbi Phillip Kleinman, a rabbi with white hair and beard as I remember him, was the rabbi that was such a nice man, as I remember.  I kept on going every Sunday morning till I was over 15 and teaching little ones.  The rabbi seems to be part of my family.  I have good memories of attending and learning.             

    I found him on ancestry.com.  He's buried at Neveh Zedek, Rose City Lodge, Oregon, plot 069.  

What impressed me was that I found a Matthew, a dentist, born in Brooklyn, New York on June 2, 1914, died in Jerusalem on August 27, 2005.  After the rabbi had been promoting Zionism, his son took him up on it, somehow.  I think this would be Matthew, his son.     

I looked the rabbi up, as I'm a genealogist by hobby, and found he came from Galicia the slice of land that Austria got after a war, as he reported honestly in 1920 on the census.  He was 28 and living then in St Paul, Minnesota and was the rabbi at the Jewish church, as they wrote.  He was married to Yetta of Poland, and had a son, Matthew, age 5 at the time.  Yetta, by the way, was on the 1900 census with her parents and siblings, and had been born in Opole Miasto, Opolskie, Poland in 1890.  Her father, Wolf, had immigrated in 1896 but her mother, Sarah, had immigrated in 1900; both listing "Russia."  

Rabbi Kleinman then reported from Milwaukie, Wisconsin in 1930 that he was a rabbi at a temple.  He had 2 more son, Solomon Kleinman and Norman Stanley Kleinman.  

The rabbi, Phillip Kleinman was on the 1940 census in Portland, so I know I have the right one.  Rabbi Kleinman was 49 and a Clergyman at a Temple, that we know as a rabbi at Neveh Zedek Synagogue.  

He and his wife were on the 1950 census of Portland with the comment of the occupation being a rabbi of a church.  

My comment is that either census takers do not know of the noun, "synagogue", and could not understand the word in order to write it down, or it was Rabbi Kleinman trying to Hellenize his occupation out of fear of WWII.  Nowhere was he listed as being a rabbi at a synagogue.  

Rabbi Philip Kleinman of Congregation Neveh Zedek was a president of the Zionist Society which had lost membership and influence in the 1920s and 30s.  He remembered it functioning informally with about 15 members. By 1937 he asked Harry Mittleman, real estate developer to help him with raising funds to keep going.  Debbie Goldberg at Reed College had written her thesis on Zionism.  She knew that Hadassah had the most influence. 

Kleinman was a key figure in the community along with the other Portland rabbis;  Wise, Berkowitz at Beth Israel;  Parzen, Sandrow and Sydney at Ahavai Shalom, and Fain at Shaarie Torah.   Rabbi Kleinman had extended his leadership at Neveh Zedek from 1937 to 1956 due to wartime.  Rabbi Joseph Fain served Shaarie Torah from 1916 to 1946.  Beth Israel used to have more German Jews attending but with the war found they also served people of Eastern European background.  

While doing searches, I stumbled across another Phillip Kleinman.  who died 7/30/2023:  Then I found another Phillip Kleinman born June 17 or 21, 1888 at age 54 and unemployed in New York City on the WWII draft.  He was born in Chittian Chattin, Russia who was a tailor; 5'6" weighed 135 lbs, black hair and 24 years old on his Declaration of Intention.  His wife was Julia.  

They lived at 765 E. 175th Brooklyn?  Another Phillip Kleinman with the  birthdate of 22 Oct 1890  had served in the US service popped up.  He was a veteran, a Pvt.  He died Oct 14, 1918 in France, buried now at Mt Zion Cemetery.   What are the chances of finding 3 or 4 Phillip Kleinmans?   Could be a relative. The last one was  Killed in action.  

Kleinman is a fairly common surname, but using an already used first name is a shunda  as I have been finding More than one Phillip Kleinman?  Not fair to genealogists.  I've even found quite a few Matthew Kleinmans.  Joseph Zalman Kleinman, a Holocaust survivor who survived the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander's trial in Jerusalem, died Tuesday, Israeli media reported. He was 91.This was reported on May 5, 2021.  I keep telling myself we're only 0.02% of the world population.  

Resource:

https://nevehshalom.org/cns150-history/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-zalman-kleinman-dies-holocaust-survivor-dead-age-91/

ancestry.com

Book: The Jews of Oregon 1850-1950 by Steven Lowenstein

Abram, An Urian of Chaldees, And Where The Chaldean Tribe Came From Part 2

 Nadene Goldfoot                                      

Standing on the Ziggaret of Ur;  perhaps their Royal Family.  Good morning from UR, royal city of the #Chaldeans.  Iraqis proud to share their native #Chaldean and #Sumerian heritage through creative and beautiful native fashion design. Reflecting the genius people of #Mesopotamia and the builders of the first human civilization in human history.

Abram's tribe seems to be those that came to Ur from the Chaldees, since the Bible refers to his city as Ur of the Chaldees.  This differentiates the native Urians who were not Semites from the tribe who came and settled there from the Chaldees who were Semites, meaning they were people speaking a Semitic language such as Hebrew or Arabic.

    Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are in Iraq; so Chaldea was more in Iran.  That's where his tribe came from; that became part of Ur of the Chaldees, a Semitic (Hebrew-speaking tribe) or language like Hebrew.  Portuguese and French are both Latin, or Romance, languages while Farsi and Arabic represent two different language groups: Iranian and Semitic, respectively. In fact, Farsi is not only in a separate language group from Arabic but it's also in a separate language family.  Farsi is what they speak in Iran.  So I would say that the Chaldean tribes were not happy in Persia, either because they did not speak the same language.  Maybe that's why they moved on to the Euphrates River and Ur.    

Chaldea (/kælˈdiːə/) was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BCE, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia.  Semitic-speaking, it was located in the marshy land of the far southeastern corner of Mesopotamia and briefly came to rule Babylon. The Hebrew Bible (Torah) uses the term כשדים (Kaśdim) and this is translated as Chaldaeans in the Greek Old Testament, although there is some dispute as to whether Kasdim in fact means Chaldean or refers to the south Mesopotamian Kaldu.  

 The name appears in Hebrew in the Bible as Kaśdim (כשדים) and in Aramaic as Kaśdāy (כשדי).

In the Torah (Bible) (Book of Genesis 22:22), the name "Kesed"(כשׂד, ancient pronunciation /kaɬd/) , is the singular form of "Kasdim"(כַּשְׂדִּים), meaning Chaldeans. 

Kesed is identified as son of Abraham's brother Nahor ((Genesis 11:26 NIV). When Terah had lived 70 years, he begot Abram, Nahor,, and Haran.  Haran became the name of a town that Abram reached on the way from Ur to Canaan and lived there until he was 75 years old.  

          Aram-Damascus land or Syria to us:  The Levant c. 830 BCE

and King Jehu (843-816) ruled Israel .  He was unsuccessful in his wars with Aram and paid tribute to Shalmaneser III of Assyria to obtain his protection.  On repelling the Assyrian threat, Hazael of Aram deprived Jehu of much of his territory.  His dynasty continued to reign for a century.  

 Scripture also shares that Nahor was married to Milkah, the daughter of his brother Haran) (and brother of Kemuel ( Genesis 22:21 as the nephew of Abraham, son of Nahor, brother of Bethuel (father of Rebekah) and the father of Aram), residing in Aram Naharaim. (ie, Aram of the Two Rivers, (Tigris and Euphrates) the NE area of Mesopotamia.  It is the land of origin of the patriarchs, and nearly all the names of the ancestors of Abraham, such as Serug, Nahor and Terah correspond to place-names in this region.  Aram means Syria and Aram-Dammesek was the most important Aramean kingdom in Syria in the 10th to 8th centuries BCE.  After the division of Solomon's kingdom, Aram was a constant danger to Israel. The Arameans were a group of linguistically related Semitic peoples living in what is today Syria and western Iraq. Their influence and presence spanned the region of the Fertile Crescent. According to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10:22, Aram, the ancestral father of the Arameans, was a grandson of Noah and a son of Noah's firstborn son, Shem. Genesis 22:20-24 

Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (37 – c. 100) also links Arphaxad (Arpachshad alternatively spelled Arphaxad or Arphacsad, is one of the postdiluvian men in the Shem–Terah genealogy.) and Chaldaea, in his Antiquities of the Jews, stating, “Arphaxad named the Arphaxadites, who are now called Chaldeans.”  Remember that Terah is the father of Abram.                              

The name Chaldaea is a latinization of the Greek Khaldaía (Χαλδαία), a hellenization of Akkadian māt Kaldu or Kašdu, suggesting an underlying /kaɬdu/.

The Torah holds the genealogy of mankind, starting with Adam and Eve and Seth, and through Seth that the human race survived.  The flood story is told and then the Tower of Babel when all people spoke the same language and then were dispersed in world, and wound up speaking different languages.  Trying to identify The Chaldeans is like trying to find a needle in the Tower of Babel. It's taken my Semitic tribes of Chaldees to Persia's land for an origin so far.  The descendants of Noah and the Flood were in Shinar and their building tried to reach heaven.  The story is that G-d frustrated their work by confusing their languages, leading to the diversity of tongues (Gen.11:1-9).  Modern scholars have seen a similarity between the tower and the Sumerian Ziggurat, or step-temple.  

 Bit Yâkin was the name of the largest and most powerful of the five tribes of the Chaldeans, or equivalently, their territory. The original extension of Bit Yâkin is not known precisely, but it extended from the lower Tigris into the Arabian Peninsula. Sargon II mentions it as extending as far as Dilmun or "sea-land" (littoral Eastern Arabia). "Chaldea" or mat Kaldi generally referred to the low, marshy, alluvial land around the estuaries of the Tigris and Euphrates, which at the time discharged their waters through separate mouths into the sea.                                      

      The Chaldean States in Babylonia during the 1st millennium BCE.

Important Kaldu tribes and their regions in southeastern Babylonia were Bit-Yâkin (the original area the Chaldeans settled in on the Persian Gulf), Bet-Dakuri, Bet-Adini, Bet-Amukkani, and Bet-Shilani.  These nomadic Chaldeans settled in the far southeastern portion of Babylonia, chiefly on the left bank of the Euphrates. Though for a short time the name commonly referred to the whole of southern Mesopotamia in Hebraic literature, this was a geographical and historical misnomer as Chaldea proper was in fact only the plain in the far southeast formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending about 640 kilometres (400 mi) along the course of these rivers and averaging about 160 km (100 mi) in width. There were several kings of Chaldean origins who ruled Babylonia.  From 626 BC to 539 BC, a ruling family referred to as the Chaldean dynasty, named after their possible Chaldean origin, ruled the kingdom at its height under the Neo-Babylonian Empire, although the final ruler of this empire, Nabonidus (556–539 BC) (and his son and regent Belshazzar) was a usurper of Assyrian ancestry.

The tribal capital Dur Yâkin was the original seat of Marduk-Baladan.

The king of Chaldea was also called the king of Bit Yakin, just as the kings of Babylonia and Assyria were regularly styled simply king of Babylon or Assur, the capital city in each case. In the same way, what is now known as the Persian Gulf was sometimes called "the Sea of Bit Yakin", and sometimes "the Sea of the Land of Chaldea".

Ur of the Chaldees was a special group of people who lived in Ur who were Hebrew speakers.  The natives of Ur did not speak their language.  Abram was one of them.  His tribe, a member of 5 tribes, seemed to come from a section of Persia, that was even further east than Ur was to Canaan.  They had been a nomadic society.  Abram's tribe was Semitic, meaning speaking a Semitic language such as Hebrew or Arabic.  Farsi, the language spoken in Persia (today's Iran) is not a Semitic language.  

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldea 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.lingualinx.com/blog/farsi-vs-arabic-comparision#:~:text=Language%20Groups%20and%20Families&text=Portuguese%20and%20French%20are%20both,in%20a%20separate%20language%20family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_(region)