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Aramaic

Semitic language

LanguageQ1502101 Q34770Q28602

Also known as Aramaic languages

Speakers: 445,000
Subclass of: Q162996
Script: Q26978
Indigenous to: Q175064

Works in this language

392 linked to Aramaic in Wikidata

Biblecollection of sacred books in Judaism and Christianity
Gospelbook which describes the life and teachings of Jesus
MediaWiki2002 · free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Book of Tobit3rd/2nd century BCE Jewish tale of Tobit’s son Tobias’s journey with the angel Raphael, considered canonical in Catholicism and in Eastern Christianity
Zoharwork in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah
Syriac alphabet0001 · writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language from the 1st century AD
HHaggadahtext that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder
maranathaAramaic phrase
mene mene tekel upharsinAramaic phrase in the Book of Daniel
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia1960 · an edition of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the Leningrad Codex
Complutensian Polyglot Bible1520 · the oldest multilingual Bible edition
Biblia Hebraica1906 · editions of the Hebrew Bible edited by Rudolf Kittel
Genesis Apocryphonone of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls
MMikraot Gedolot1517 · edition of the Tanakh with the classic Jewish commentaries
Chad Gadya1526 · 16th‐century Jewish song
Stele of Zakkur-079 · ancient Aramaean stele
Alphabet of Sirach0600 · anonymous medieval text; compilation of two lists of proverbs, 22 in Aramaic and 22 in Hebrew, both arranged as alphabetic acrostics
Targum Onkelosaramaic translation of the Five Books of Moses
DDeir Alla Inscriptionancient inscription relating visions of the seer of the gods Bala'am, son of Be'or
Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription-025 · edict of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in Afghanistan
SSymphony No. 3symphony by Leonard Bernstein
BBesiyata Dishmaya("with the help of Heaven") Aramaic-language expression used by Orthodox Jews; lacks the Hebrew letter He used to imply the name of God, and thus not subject to religious restrictions on the divine name
Afghan Genizacollection of Jewish manuscripts
4Q246Aramaic apocalyptic text found among the Dead Sea Scrolls

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68 statements · 18% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Wikimedia language code: arc
Native label: ܠܫܢܐ ܐܪܡܝܐ
Follows: Q3398392
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1.Stated in Q23306977
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Linguistic typology: Q166097
Studied by: Q625699
Category for films in this language: Q8258629
Different from: Q10196
Time period: Q185461

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