About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Abduyi dialect, Abuzaydabadi dialect, Afshar language, Aimaq dialect, Aramaic language, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Azerbaijani language, Balochi language, Barbari dialect, Bashkardi language, Brahui language, Caspian languages, Central dialects (Iranian), Dari language (Zoroastrian), Dari Persian, Davani dialect, Dialects of Fars, Domari language, Eastern Armenian, Fedaghi dialect, Georgian language, Gilaki language, Gorgani dialect, Gulf Arabic, Hazaragi dialect, Iraqi Arabic, Jadgali language, Judeo-Shirazi, Khalaj language (Iranic), Kho'ini dialect, Khorasani Turkic language, Khuzestani Arabic, Koroshi dialect, Korouni dialect, Kurdish dialects, Kurdish language, Kurmanji, Language of Deylamites, Larestani language, Lishan Didan, Luri language, Mandaic language, Mazandarani language, Neo-Mandaic, Northeastern Neo-Aramaic, North Mesopotamian Arabic, Old Kazeruni dialect, Persian dialects in Khuzestan, Persian Sign Language, Qashqai language, Salchuq language, Senaya language, Sivandi language, Talysh language, Turkmen language, Vafsi language, Western Persian, Zargari Romani. Excerpt: Aramaic is a family of languages (traditionally referred to as "dialects") belonging to the Semitic family, and more specifically, is a part of the Northwest Semitic subfamily, which also includes Canaanite languages such as Hebrew and Phoenician. Aramaic script was widely adopted for other languages and is ancestral to both the Arabic and modern Hebrew alphabets. During its 3,000-year written history, Aramaic has served variously as a language of administration of empires and as a language of divine worship. It was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period (539 BC - 70 AD), the language that Jesus Christ probably used the most, the language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the...
