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Aramaic

noun
1.
A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia.
2.
An alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it.  Synonym: Aramaic script.



Related searches:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Biblical Aramaic


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"Aramaic" Quotes from Famous Books



... its ethnographical data. The language in which most of our cuneiform inscriptions are written, the language, that is, that we call Assyrian, is closely allied to the Hebrew. Towards the period of the second Chaldee Empire, another dialect of the same family, the Aramaic, seems to have been in common use from one end of Mesopotamia to the other. A comparative study of the rites and religious beliefs of the Semitic races would lead us to the same result. Finally, there is something very significant in the facility with which classic writers ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot


Words linked to "Aramaic" :   Mandean, script, Assyrian, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Mandaean, Semitic, Biblical Aramaic


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