Aramaic

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Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language historically spoken in the Near East, notable as a lingua franca of empires and as the everyday language of parts of the biblical and early Christian world.

All labels observed (13)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Semitic language
language
closelyRelatedTo Hebrew
Phoenician language
hasAncestor Proto-Semitic language
hasDialects Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic

Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
Imperial Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic

Mandaic
Syriac
Turoyo
Western Neo-Aramaic
hasReligiousSignificanceFor Christianity
Judaism
Mandaeism
hasWritingSystem Aramaic alphabet
Hebrew alphabet
Mandaic alphabet
linked to: Mandaic

Syriac alphabet
linked to: East Syriac script
historicalRegion Anatolia
Levant
linked to: Levant region

Mesopotamia
Persian Empire
linked to: Achaemenid Empire
influenced Arabic
Hebrew
Middle Persian
linked to: Old Persian

various Near Eastern scripts
ISO639-2Code arc
ISO639-3Code arc
partOf Afroasiatic language family
stillSpokenIn diaspora communities
some communities in Iraq
some communities in Syria
some communities in Turkey
subclassOf Northwest Semitic language
timePeriod early first millennium CE
first millennium BCE
usedAs lingua franca
usedBy Achaemenid Empire
Mandaean religious communities
Neo-Assyrian Empire
linked to: Assyria

Neo-Babylonian Empire
early Christian communities
various Jewish communities
usedIn Book of Daniel
Book of Ezra
linked to: Ezra–Nehemiah

Christian liturgy
Dead Sea Scrolls
Jeremiah 10:11
Jewish liturgy
Mandaean religious texts
Targums
parts of the Hebrew Bible
writingDirection right-to-left

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Prophetic Books language Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Septuagint hasOriginalLanguage Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Prophets language Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Writings language Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Hebrew closelyRelatedTo Aramaic
Central Semitic languages includesLanguage Imperial Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Central Semitic languages includesLanguage Eastern Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Judeo-Italian influencedBy Aramaic
Judeo-Tat lexicalInfluence Aramaic
Syriac developedFrom Old Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Apostle Paul languageSpoken Aramaic
Syriac Rite hasHistoricalLanguageFamily Aramaic languages
linked to: Aramaic
Herodian period languageUsed Aramaic
Ezra–Nehemiah language Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Achaemenid Empire usedLanguage Imperial Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Aramaic hasDialects Imperial Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Aramaic hasDialects Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Aramaic hasDialects Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Tobit hasLanguage Aramaic
Barnabas languageOfName Aramaic
Northwest Semitic hasMember Aramaic
Northwest Semitic hasMember Aramaic languages
linked to: Aramaic
Northwest Semitic hasMember Imperial Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Northwest Semitic hasMember Palmyrene Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Northwest Semitic hasMember Old Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Northwest Semitic hasMember Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Edomite influencedBy Aramaic
Aramaic alphabet usedForLanguage Aramaic language
subject linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
linked to: Aramaic
Akkadian influenced Aramaic language
linked to: Aramaic
Akkadian replacedBy Aramaic language
linked to: Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ancestorLanguage Middle Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ancestorLanguage Old Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Ancient of Days languageOfOrigin Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic historicalAncestor Middle Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic
Moshe Isserles languageOfWorkOrName Aramaic
subject linked to: Rabbi Moshe Isserles
Judeo-Iranian languages influencedBy Aramaic language
linked to: Aramaic
Nehardea language Aramaic
Today’s English Version translatedFrom Biblical Aramaic
linked to: Aramaic