Aramaic
E19371
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.
Observed surface forms (9)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Biblical Aramaic | 0 | 10 |
| Aramaic language | 0 | 5 |
| Imperial Aramaic | 0 | 4 |
| Old Aramaic | 0 | 3 |
| Aramaic languages | 0 | 2 |
| Middle Aramaic | 0 | 2 |
| Eastern Aramaic | 0 | 1 |
| Jewish Babylonian Aramaic | 0 | 1 |
| Palmyrene Aramaic | 0 | 1 |
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Semitic language
→
language → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Hebrew
→
Phoenician language → |
| hasAncestor | Proto-Semitic language → |
| hasDialects |
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
→
Aramaic self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic → Aramaic self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
Imperial Aramaic
Aramaic self-linksurface differs →
surface form:
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Mandaic → Syriac → Turoyo → Western Neo-Aramaic → |
| hasReligiousSignificanceFor |
Christianity
→
Judaism → Mandaeism → |
| hasWritingSystem |
Aramaic alphabet (historically)
→
surface form:
Aramaic alphabet
Hebrew alphabet → Mandaic →
surface form:
Mandaic alphabet
East Syriac script →
surface form:
Syriac alphabet
|
| historicalRegion |
Anatolia
→
Levant region →
surface form:
Levant
Mesopotamia → Achaemenid Empire →
surface form:
Persian Empire
|
| influenced |
Arabic
→
Hebrew → Old Persian →
surface form:
Middle Persian
various Near Eastern scripts → |
| ISO639-2Code | arc → |
| ISO639-3Code | arc → |
| partOf |
Afroasiatic languages
→
surface form:
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 → Assyria →
surface form:
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire → early Christian communities → various Jewish communities → |
| usedIn |
Book of Daniel
→
Ezra–Nehemiah →
surface form:
Book of Ezra
Christian liturgy → Dead Sea Scrolls → Jeremiah 10:11 → Jewish liturgy → Mandaean religious texts → Targums → parts of the Hebrew Bible → |
| writingDirection | right-to-left → |
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Middle Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Old Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Old Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Imperial Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Aramaic languages
this entity surface form:
Aramaic language
this entity surface form:
Aramaic languages
this entity surface form:
Imperial Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Palmyrene Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Old Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Middle Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Imperial Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Eastern Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Aramaic language
this entity surface form:
Aramaic language
this entity surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
this entity surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
subject surface form:
Moshe Isserles