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Synonyms aramaic script
Type of script
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Type of semitic
Has types biblical aramaic, assyrian, mandean, mandaean, assyrian neo-aramaic
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Aramaic is a Semitic language related to Hebrew and Arabic rather than Kurdish.
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Aramaic is still spoken in Malula, a cliffside village in southwestern Syria.
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Aramaic is a group of languages belonging to the Afroasiaticlanguage phylum.
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Aramaic nouns and adjectives are inflected to show gender, number and state.
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Aramaic being the lingua franca of the Middle East, it was widely adopted.
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Aramaic, like Hebrew, is a Northwest Semitic language, and the two share many features.
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Aramaic became the common language in the north, in Galilee and Samaria.
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Aramaic only accounts for about 250 verses out of a total of over 23,000.
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Aramaic, alongside Hebrew was the language of Post Babylonian Judaism, employed in the Talmud.
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  • Of or relating to the ancient Aramaic languages
  • A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
  • 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
  • The language in which the talmud is written, also used in many other Jewish texts.
  • A semitic language, like Hebrew, which was the primary language spoken by Jews in Israel and the Middle East from about the fifth century bce up to the fifteh century ce.
  • (Acts 21:40, 22:2) The Greek word could mean Hebrew (NASB, KJV). Aramaic was the common language of the people. The two languages were related, so the people could have understood Hebrew with some effort. ...
  • One of the languages used by people in Jesus' time, probably the language that Jesus and the disciples would have spoken to each other.
  • The Jews starting speaking Aramaic when they were taken as slaves to Babylon.
  • A northwest Semitic language known since before the tenth century BCE until the rise of Islam; still used today in some places in the Near East; official language of the Persian empire; used extensively in southwest Asia and by the Jews after the Babylonian exile; the cursive script replaced the ...