Aramaic | |
---|---|
ܐܪܡܝܐ, ארמיא Arāmāyā | |
Geographic distribution: | Levant, Fertile Crescent, Eastern Arabia |
Linguistic classification: | Afro-Asiatic |
Subdivisions: |
Aramaic is a Semitic language. It has been written for 3100 years and has been spoken for longer than that.
It is one of the Northwest Semitic languages. The Semitic languages include Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic and many other languages.
Aramaic is the language of long parts of the two Bible books of Daniel and Ezra. It is the language of the Jewish Talmud.