Official Aramaic language
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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. It succeeded Old Aramaic
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Afro-Asiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages , also known as Hamito-Semitic, constitute one of the world's largest language families, with about 375 living languages...
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. It succeeded Old Aramaic
Old Aramaic language
The term “Old Aramaic” seems to be used by some writers to refer to the same phenomenon which is called “Ancient Aramaic” by others. This gives rise to considerable confusion...
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