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Chaldean (or Kaldani or Kaldean) may refer to:
Language
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a Neo-Aramaic dialect closely related to Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
- "Chaldean script", sometimes used (erroneously) to refer to the Syriac alphabet
Places
- Chaldea ("the Chaldees"), Hellenistic designation for a part of southeast Babylonia between the 9th and 6th centuries BC
- Neo-Babylonian Empire
- Historical Babylon, particularly from a later Greek and Jewish perspective
Religion
- Ancient Mesopotamian religion
- Chaldean Rite, an East Syriac Rite
- Chaldean Catholics, adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church
- Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church
- Chaldean Oracles, played a role in the start of the Christian church 1st centuries BC and AD
- Chaldean Syrian Church, title used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India
See also
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