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 | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Biblical Aramaic | 10 |
| Aramaic language | 5 |
| Imperial Aramaic | 4 |
| Old Aramaic | 3 |
| Aramaic languages | 2 |
| Middle Aramaic | 2 |
| Eastern Aramaic | 1 |
| Jewish Babylonian Aramaic | 1 |
| Palmyrene Aramaic | 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:
Aramaic language
this entity surface form:
Biblical Aramaic
subject surface form:
Aramaic alphabet
this entity surface form:
Aramaic language
this entity surface form:
Imperial Aramaic