Aramaic language
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Aramaic is a Semitic language. It has been written for 3100 years[1] and has been spoken for longer than that.[2]
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Aramaic | |
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ܐܪܡܝܐ, ארמיא Arāmāyā | |
Geographic distribution: | Levant, Fertile Crescent, Eastern Arabia |
Linguistic classification: | Afro-Asiatic |
Subdivisions: |
Eastern Aramaic
Western Aramaic
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It is one of the Northwest Semitic languages. Other Semitic languages include Amharic, Hebrew, Arabic and many other languages.
Words are written with the 22 characters of the Aramaic alphabet,[3] which was widely adopted for other languages and is an ancestor to the Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic alphabets.