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Ar·a·ma·ic | \ ˌa-rə-ˈmā-ik 
, ˌer-ə-\
, ˌer-ə-\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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The first known use of Aramaic was in 1813
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