"Aramaic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... territories lying to NE. of Palestine, the inhabitants of which spoke a Semitic dialect called Aramaic, and ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... common to most Hamitic and Semitic tribes, among whom that from which the Hebrews sprang brought it to its greatest perfection. The others worked it into different kindred dialects—the Assyrian, the Aramaic or Syrian, the Arabic—according to their several peculiarities. The Phoenicians of the sea-shore, and all the Canaanite nations, also spoke languages belonging to the same family, and therefore classed among the so-called ...
— Chaldea - From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria • Znade A. Ragozin |
