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
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

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Meilah language Aramaic
Arvad hasLanguage Aramaic
Abjad typicalLanguages Aramaic
Batanaea languageUsed Aramaic
Thomas Braun nameComponentOrigin Aramaic
this entity surface form: Thomas is of Aramaic origin
Semitic peoples historicallySpoke Aramaic
this entity surface form: Aramaic language
Phoenician Yodh ancestorOf Aramaic
this entity surface form: Aramaic Yodh
Spanyolit influencedBy Aramaic
Thomas Schmidt hasNameComponentOrigin Aramaic
this entity surface form: Thomas is of Aramaic origin