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Aramaic
Meaning
Adj
●
Referring to the Aramaic language,
alphabet
,
culture
or poetry.
Noun
●
An Aramaean.
Name
●
A
subfamily
of
languages
in the Northwest Semitic language group including (but not
limited
to):
The language of the Aramaeans from the
tenth
century
BC: often called Old Aramaic.
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.
The language of
portions
of the Hebrew Bible,
mainly
the
books
of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.
The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Galilean Aramaic.
The language of Jewish
targums
, Midrash and the Talmuds, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
The
liturgical language
of various Christian
churches
: often called Syriac.
The
liturgical language
of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.
Any language of this family
today
called Neo-Aramaic, and
separated
by
religion
also Judeo-Aramaic and Syriac
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