Meaning Of The Word Aramaic

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Aramaic in American English
a Northwest Semitic language that was the lingua franca throughout the Near East from c. 300 b.c. to c. a. d. 650: it replaced Hebrew as the language of the Jews, and one of its dialects was spoken by Jesus and his disciples
noun: a northwest Semitic language that from c300b.c.–a.d.650 was a lingua franca for nearly all of SW Asia and was the everyday speech of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine

Aramaic in British English
noun: an ancient language of the Middle East, still spoken in parts of Syria and the Lebanon, belonging to the NW Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family. Originally the speech of Aram, in the 5th century bc it spread to become the lingua franca of the Per

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