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Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.
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A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of the Arameans from the tenth century BC: often called Old Aramaic.
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A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of the administration in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires from the seventh to fourth centuries BC: often called Imperial Aramaic or Official Aramaic.
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A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of portions of the Hebrew Bible, mainly the books of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.
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A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Galilean Aramaic.
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A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of Jewish targums, Midrash and the Talmuds, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
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A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The liturgical language of various Christian churches: often called Syriac.
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A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The liturgical language of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.
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A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
Any language of this family today called Neo-Aramaic, and separated by religion also Judeo-Aramaic and Syriac
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noun
An Aramean.
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adjective
of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages
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noun
an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it
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Broader terms: script
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a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
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Broader terms: Semitic
Narrower terms: Biblical Aramaic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Assyrian, Mandaean, Mandean
History
From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic.
Across languages
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