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ARAMAIC LANGUAGES

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ARAMAIC

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LANGUAGES  , a class of
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languages so called from
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Aram, a
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geographical
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term, which in old Semitic usage designates nearly the same districts as the
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Greek word
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Syria . Aram, however, does not include
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Palestine, while it comprehends
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Mesopotamia (Heb . Aram of two
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rivers), a region which the Greeks frequently distinguish from Syria proper . Thus the Aramaic languages may be geographically defined as the Semitic dialects originally current in Mesopotamia and the regions extending
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south-
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west from the
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Euphrates to Palestine .

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