Classical Aramaic

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Aramaic language language variety liturgical language

Classical Aramaic is the standardized literary and liturgical form of the Aramaic language used in antiquity, notably in religious texts and inscriptions across the Near East.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Aramaic language ⓘ language variety ⓘ liturgical language ⓘ
hasDialect	Biblical Aramaic NERFINISHED ⓘ Early Syriac NERFINISHED ⓘ Imperial Aramaic NERFINISHED ⓘ Jewish Literary Aramaic ⓘ Official Aramaic ⓘ Targumic Aramaic NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code	arc ⓘ
hasScriptDirection	right-to-left ⓘ
languageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ Northwest Semitic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Semitic languages ⓘ
standardizedFormOf	Aramaic ⓘ
subclassOf	Afroasiatic language ⓘ Aramaic NERFINISHED ⓘ Northwest Semitic language ⓘ Semitic language ⓘ
timePeriod	antiquity ⓘ early first millennium CE ⓘ first millennium BCE ⓘ
usedBy	Christian communities ⓘ Jewish communities ⓘ Samaritan communities NERFINISHED ⓘ scribes ⓘ
usedFor	biblical exegesis ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ legal documents ⓘ liturgical texts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ
usedIn	Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ ancient Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedInReligion	Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ Samaritanism NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedInText	Dead Sea Scrolls NERFINISHED ⓘ Hebrew Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ Targums NERFINISHED ⓘ inscriptions of the Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
writingSystem	Aramaic alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ Hebrew alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ Syriac alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

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

Neo-Aramaic languages → developedFrom → Classical Aramaic ⓘ

Barwar dialect → hasAncestor → Classical Aramaic ⓘ

Alqosh dialect → historicalContinuityWith → Classical Aramaic ⓘ