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ARAMAIC LANGUAGES

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARAMAIC See also:

LANGUAGES , a class of languages so called from See also:Aram, a See also:geographical See also:term, which in old Semitic usage designates nearly the same districts as the See also:Greek word See also:Syria. Aram, however, does not include See also:Palestine, while it comprehends See also:Mesopotamia (Heb. Aram of two See also: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 See also:south-See also:west from the See also:Euphrates to Palestine.

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