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Aramaic
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  1. Aramaic
  2. Aramaic alphabet
  3. Syro-Aramaic
  4. West Aramaic
  5. Western Aramaic

Ar·a·ma·ic

noun \-ˈmā-ik\

Definition of ARAMAIC

: a Semitic language known since the ninth century b.c. as the speech of the Aramaeans and later used extensively in southwest Asia as a commercial and governmental language and adopted as their customary speech by various non-Aramaean peoples including the Jews after the Babylonian exile
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First Known Use of ARAMAIC

1828

Rhymes with ARAMAIC

algebraic, Cyrenaic, formulaic, pharisaic, Ptolemaic

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