Chaldean

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Chaldean (or Kaldani or Kaldean) may refer to:

• Chaldea ("the Chaldees"), Hellenistic designation for a part of southeast Babylonia between the 9th and 6th centuries BC
• Chaldean Dynasty, the 11th dynasty of Babylon (6th century BC), only some of whom were Chaldeans
• Chaldean mythology, generalized term used to refer to all the mythologies of ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylon (Mesopotamian religions)
• Chaldean Oracles, played a role in the start of the Christian church 1st centuries BC and AD.
• Historical Babylon, particularly from a later Greek and Jewish perspective

Language

• Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a Neo-Aramaic dialect closely related to Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, originating from Syriac spoken in northern Iraq, and the Assyrian Christian communities worldwide.
• "Chaldean script", sometimes used (erroneously) to refer to the Syriac alphabet

Religion and Churches

• Chaldean Rite, an East Syrian Rite
  • Chaldean Christians, Assyrian adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church
• Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church
• Chaldean Syrian Church, title used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India