Official Aramaic language

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Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
Spoken in: Ancient Near East
Language extinction: 700-300 BCE
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  Central
   Aramaic
    Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: arc

Official Aramaic is an ancient Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Near East between about 700 BCE and 300 BCE. It succeeded Old Aramaic.

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  • T. Muraoka & B. Porten. 2004. A Grammar of Egyptian Aramaic. Handbook of Oriental Studies, The Near and Middle East. Brill.
  • Franz Rosenthal. 1995. A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic. 6th revised edition. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.