northern branch of Semitic language group, 1834, from biblical land of Aram, roughly corresponding to modern Syria; probably related to Hebrew and Aramaic rum "to be high," thus originally & [..]

The Oxford Companion to the Bible discusses Chaldean Aramaic as a Northwest Semitic language closely related to Classical Hebrew. Classical Hebrew developed as an offshoot of proto-Canaanite around 1, [..]

(n) a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia(n) an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write t [..]

The Semitic language which was the vernacular in Palestine in the time of Christ, and which he himself almost certainly used (Cross, The Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church).

A language related to Hebrew and Arabic, and probably the mother tongue of Jesus. It was the language most people spoke in the villages and towns of Palestine and is the main language of the Jewish Ta [..]

Aramaic is a Semitic language that was spoken in the Near East beginning about 1000 BC.Modern forms of Aramaic are typically called Neo-Aramaic.