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Aramaic

Semitic language

Also known as Aramaic languages

Speakers: 445,000
Subclass of: Northwest Semitic
Script: Imperial Aramaic alphabet
Indigenous to: Arameans

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Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai, southeastern Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Arabia, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over 3,000 years.

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Wikimedia language code: arc
Native label: ܠܫܢܐ ܐܪܡܝܐ
Follows: Old Aramaic
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1.Stated in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
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Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object
Studied by: Aramaic studies
Category for films in this language: Category:Aramaic-language films
Different from: Aranese
Time period: Arameans

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