Official Aramaic language
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| Official Aramaic | |
|---|---|
| (700–300 BCE) | |
| Spoken in | Ancient Near East |
| Extinct | 700-300 BCE |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | arc |
| ISO 639-3 | arc |
Official Aramaic is an ancient Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Near East between about 700 BCE and 300 BCE. It received its name from the fact that it was adopted as the administrative language of the Achaemenid Persian empire beginning about 500 BCE.[1] It succeeded Old Aramaic.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Aramaic" by Stuart Creason, chapter 13 in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, edited by Roger D. Woodard (2004) ISBN 0-521-56256-2, p.456
[edit] References
- T. Muraoka & B. Porten. 2004. A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic. Handbook of Oriental Studies, The Near and Middle East. Brill.
- Franz Rosenthal. 1995. A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic. 6th revised edition. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
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