Arāmāyā in Syriac Esṭrangelā script

Syriac-Aramaic alphabet

A pot sherd with Aramaic characters

Inscription in Aramaic, found near Palmyra, modern-day Syria. This inscription is in the Louvre, in Paris

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.