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Preferred term

arcAramaic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • 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.

Entry terms

  • Aramaic, Imperial (700-300 BCE)
  • Aramaic, Official (700-300 BCE)
  • Imperial Aramaic
  • Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
  • Official Aramaic
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
  • Official Aramaic language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • arc

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • arc

ISO 639-3 code

  • arc

Notation

  • arc

In other languages

  • araméen

    French

  • araméen d'empire (700-300 BCE)
  • Aramäisch

    German

  • aramaico

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • arameo

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/arc

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