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(disambiguation). ܐܪܡܝܐ‎, ארמית Fertile Crescent, Eastern Arabia
Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic Proto-language: Old
Aramaic (before 700 BC) Imperial Aramaic (700–300 BC) ISO 639-2
/ 5: arc Linguasphere: 12-AAA Glottolog: aram1259[1] Arāmāyā in
Syriac Esṭrangelā script  Aramaic (Classical Syriac: ܐܪܡܝܐ
Aramaya) is a family of languages or dialects, belonging to the
Semitic family. More specifically, it is a part of the Northwest
Semitic subfamily, which also includes Canaanite languages such
as Hebrew and Phoenician. The Aramaic script was widely adopted
for other languages and is ancestral to both the Arabic and
modern Hebrew alphabets.  During its approximately 3,100 years
of written history,[2] Aramaic has served variously as a
language of administration of empires and