Aramaic (disambiguation)

Aramaic refers to the language of the Arameans.

Aramaic may also refer to:

  • Aramaic alphabet, adapted from the Phoenician alphabet and became distinctive from it by the 8th century BCE
  • Aramaic of Hatra, inscriptions from the site of Hatra that were published in 1912
  • Aramaic of Jesus, alludes to a general scholarly agreement that Jesus and his disciples primarily spoke the Aramaic language
  • Assyrian people, a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia and still speaks Aramaic
    • Arameans, a Northwest Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who originated in what is now modern Syria
  • Biblical Aramaic, a form of the Aramaic language used in such biblical books as Daniel and Ezra
  • Middle Aramaic, spoken from the 3rd century CE into various periods of modern times in different areas
  • Neo-Aramaic languages, varieties of Aramaic that have been spoken from medieval times to the modern era
  • Old Aramaic, an ancient and extinct version of the Aramaic language

See also

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