Chaldean

Chaldean (or Kaldani or Kaldean) may refer to:

• Chaldea ("the Chaldees"), Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylon
• Chaldean Dynasty, the 11th dynasty of Babylon (6th century BC)
• Chaldean mythology, generalized term used to refer to all the mythologies of ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylon (Mesopotamian religions)
• Chaldean Oracles, played a role in the start of the Christian church 1st centuries BC and AD.
• Historical Babylon, particularly in a Mesopotamian context

Language

• Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a Neo-Aramaic dialect spoken in Iraq, and the Chaldean communities worldwide, most speakers being ethnic Chaldean and religiously Chaldean Catholics
• "Chaldean script", sometimes used to refer to the Syriac alphabet

Religion and Churches

• Chaldean Rite, an East Syrian Rite
  • Chaldean Christians, Chaldean people adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church
• Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church
• Chaldean Syrian Church, title used for the Church of the East in India