A language widely spoken in the middle of the 1st millennium B.C.E. It was originally spoken by the Aramaeans, who spread it throughout the Assyrian Empire, which they served as scribes, so that their language was widely used in official business...

Group of Semitic dialects attested since the tenth century BC, widespread throughout the Near East from approx. 300 BC to AD 600. Aramaic was used in the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires and is spoken today in small enclaves in Syria, Turkey,...

a language written in the *Hebrew script and much spoken in the Ancient World. Several of the *Dead Sea Scrolls were written in Aramaic and it is the language of the *Talmud. It still survives today in isolated areas of...

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